Thursday, November 5, 2009
Alien Health Care??
The White house is trying to legislate prohibiting illegal immigrants of purchasing health care plans even if they are able to pay. Luis Gutierrez, a House Democrat and the majority of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus are appalled by the executive’s initiation. Gutierrez claims that President Obama has dehumanized and criminalized illegal immigrants in the states. Gutierrez states that if we don’t provide health care plans for illegal immigrants then there will be a significant raise in taxes due to prone increasing numbers of immigrants in the emergency rooms. Should we provide health care plans for illegal immigrants? Not in our best interests due to some statistics. We have enough problems as it is. It is just too burdensome, statistics show that one-third of the children of illegal immigrants live in poverty nearly double the rate for children of U.S. born parents. Therefore, majority of the illegal population are unable to cover standard hospital bills that can exceed to about $20,000 for two overnight stays, despite the fact that Medicare only covers a certain percentage of the bill depending on the quality of health care insurance you have, in this case most won’t have compatible insurance to cover most of it. Most records show that the population of illegal immigrants can reach as high as 20 million. For the United States to cover another hefty load of people is just asking for our economy to nose dive. If they are here illegally what makes them think that we are going to provide them with health insurance at a time when we are trying to get back on our feet. Insane! Back to Gutierrez statement about the emergency rooms, President Reagan in 1986 signed an Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act which is offered by Emergency Medicaid, personal insurance if patient has it, or by out of pocket, if not either of these it is recorded as charity care by the hospital. In Texas the state comptroller estimated that illegal immigrants cost the hospitals a whopping $1.3 billion annually. In desperate reconsideration illegal immigrants should be deported if noticed in emergency rooms so our nation can stabilize our economy to not deter anymore. All in all this could be the resolution to our problem. Who would of thought?
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The article entitled “Alien Healthcare” posted to the blog “The Blog Has Landed” points out illegal immigrant healthcare issues. I feel that a lot of things could be done different about illegal immigrants trying to get the new healthcare. It’s hard to take one side and not the other. It’s almost like the saying, “There are two sides to every story.” Half of the illegal immigrants are trying their hardest to become United States citizens and the other are doing the exact opposite. By allowing illegal immigrants to obtain the healthcare, does that make it cost less for American citizens? Or do we raise taxes and get everyone pissed off at the government for allowing this to even happen. If the illegal immigrants get their papers, I feel they should be allowed to receive the new healthcare that is coming out. Until then they should not be able to obtain the healthcare. Also, why don’t we arrest them as they enter our hospitals? I think the answer to that is MONEY. Just to send the illegal immigrants back costs our country money, something our country does not have at the moment.
ReplyDeleteIn The Blog Has Landed, the blogger writes about how they support the government's push to prohibit illegal immigrants from receiving federal health care.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree that we don't need to spend anymore money on people who should not be living here in the first place. As the author points out: It's been the norm for hospitals to cover patients due to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act. But some hospitals can no longer afford to do this.
The San Fransisco Chronicle reported in March that some clinics have been forced to close while others are cutting non-emergency health services to illegal immigrants all together. They in turn will save millions of dollars and keep medical personal employed.
Although I sympathize with illegal families that have counted on these services for their health, there needs to be a limit. They can no longer depend on a country that is still in a recession and trying to get it's own citizens to find jobs. Enough is enough.
The only issue I have with the post is the hospital checking patients' residential status and then reporting them. This is not their job. It's up to our federal government to place restrictions on illegal immigrant services and tighten those purse strings.
Hopefully more immigrants will realize that America is not the only place to turn to anymore.