WE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD MEDICATIONS, BUT WE’RE STILL FORCED T PAY FOR LA RAZA’S!
ILLEGAL IN CA COST HOSPITALS $1.2 BILLION. MEXICO HAS AN ENTIRE SYSTEM WORKED OUT TO BRING MORE MEXICANS OVER OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE” MEDICAL, AND ANCHOR BABY BREEDING & WELFARE.
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE PUTS OUT $600 FROM PROPERTY TAXES TO ILLEGALS ON WELFARE!
VIVA LA RAZA LOOTING? THE DEMS DO EVERY DAY!
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THE LOOTING OF AMERICAN – MEXICO’S EXPORTATION OF POVERTY, CRIMINALS AND PREGNANT WOMEN TO ANCHOR THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/09/obamas-free-medical-for-his-la-raza.html
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Half of Americans cannot afford prescribed medications
By Tom Eley
28 September 2011
A new study by Consumer Reports has documented a dramatic increase in the number of Americans forgoing needed medications and health care for financial reasons.
The Consumer Reports National Research Center found that over the last year nearly half of all Americans (49 percent) who were prescribed medication and other health procedures reported holding back for financial reasons, up from 39 percent a year earlier.
Coming on the heels of census data showing a sharp increase in the ranks of the uninsured to 49.9 million, the Consumer Reports survey is yet another exposure of the right-wing character of the Obama administration’s health care “reform,” which will do nothing to rein in health care costs. More than one-and-one-half years after its passage, access to health care has become more financially onerous.
The study found that among the 49 percent of respondents who reported avoiding recommended health care, 28 percent put their own health at significant risk in order to save money, including 16 percent who did not fill a prescription, 13 percent who took expired medication, 12 percent who skipped scheduled doses without medical consultation, 8 percent who took to cutting pills in half, and 4 percent who reported doubling up on medication with someone else.
Another 21 percent reported delaying a doctor’s visit, and 17 percent delayed a prescribed medical procedure. Fourteen percent refused prescribed medical tests.
The study found a decline in average household out-of-pocket expenditure on drugs from $68 two years ago to $59. Consumer Reports attributed this to “household budget constraints.”
“The rising percentage of people putting off health care makes us wonder if we are really done with the recession,” said Dr. John Santa, a physician with Consumer Reports’ Health Ratings Center. “This is one of the most sensitive barometers of how people are coping with the financial pressures.”
The study offers a window on a vast public health catastrophe. According to one estimate, about half of all Americans, 49 percent, currently take a prescription drug. Consumer Reports data suggests that half of this category, again 49 percent, forgo needed medical treatment due to cost. Thus roughly a quarter of the population, 75 million people, are not complying with medical advice for financial reasons.
The consequences of this are doubly concentrated on the working class and poor because these sections of the population both most need and can least afford medical treatment: consumers earning less than $40,000 and those over the age of 65 years are the demographics that are prescribed the most medications, at 5.7 per consumer and 5.5 per consumer, respectively.
The Consumer Reports study comes after an August survey by the Commonwealth Fund, which found that nearly 75 percent of people who lost health insurance when they recently lost their jobs were forced to skip treatment or medication because of cost. In April, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study revealing that 33 percent of Americans skipped dental care the previous year because they could not afford it. In 2003, the US surgeon general reported that 108 million Americans had no dental insurance; the number is certainly far higher now.
“People want to believe there’s a safety net that catches all of these people, and there isn’t,” said Dr. Glenn Stream, president-elect of the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Indeed, tens of thousands of people die each year in the US for lack of health care. In 2009 the American Journal of Public Health estimated that 45,000 deaths per year in the United States are associated with the lack of health insurance. This is about 12 times the number of Americans killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, whose deaths have been used to justify trillions of dollars in spending on wars and the military. In 2010 the health care advocacy group Families USA predicted that, over the coming decade, as many as 275,000 Americans will die for lack of health care coverage.
One recent example of the tragic results of this crisis is the death of 24-year-old Kyle Willis of Cincinnati. Willis’s wisdom tooth started to cause discomfort in mid-August. The pain and swelling became so severe that he had to go to the emergency room, where he was prescribed antibiotics and medications. Willis, who was unemployed and had no health insurance, could not afford both, and so chose the pain medications for relief.
The infection spread to Willis’s brain and killed him on August 30. The aspiring paralegal left behind a six-year-old daughter.
“When people are unemployed or don’t have insurance, where do they go? What do they do?” asked Dr. Irvin Silverstein, a dentist at the University of California at San Diego, commenting on Willis’s death. “People end up dying, and these are the most treatable, preventable diseases in the world.”
“[Willis] might as well have been living in 1927,” said Dr. Jim Jirjis, director of general internal medicine at Vanderbilt University. “All of the advances we’ve made in medicine today and are proud of, for people who don’t have coverage, you might as well never have developed those.”
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/07/california-pays-out-125-billion-on-la.html
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Calif. Hospitals Spend $1.25 Bil On Illegal Immigrants
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07/05/2011
While the Obama Administration halts deportations to work on its secret amnesty plan, hospitals across the U.S. are getting stuck with the exorbitant tab of medically treating illegal immigrants and some are finally demanding compensation from the federal government.
The group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical providers recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse them for the monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law requires facilities to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their immigration status, but federal support for the services remains “virtually nonexistent,” according to a letter submitted by the American Hospital Association to the president.
This week officials in California, the state with the largest concentration of illegal immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation after revealing that hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report.
The problem will only get worst, according to officials, who say the $1.25 billion for 2010 could actually be higher. They complain that federal law forces them to treat patients in emergency rooms regardless of immigration status yet they get stuck with the financial burden. This has forced many hospitals to curtail services or close beds and could ultimately compromise healthcare.
Nationwide, U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars annually to provide free medical care for illegal immigrants with states that border Mexico taking the biggest hit. Adding to the problem is the fact that Mexico, the country that provides the largest amount of illegal immigrants in the U.S., has long promoted America’s generous public health centers. It even operates a Spanish-language program (Ventanillas de Salud, Health Windows) in about a dozen U.S. cities that refers its nationals—living in the country illegally—to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
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THESE FIGURES ON WELFARE FOR ILLEGALS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARE DATED. IT NOT EXCEEDS $600 MILLION PER YEAR!!! (source: Los Angeles County & JUDICIAL WATCH)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949085/posts
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LOS ANGELES – A MEXICAN WELFARE AND CRIME STATE WHERE THE JOBS ALSO GO TO ILLEGALS
http://mex¬icanoccupa¬tion.blogs¬pot.com/20¬11/04/mexi¬can-welfar¬e-state-in¬-los-angel¬es.html
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One tragic thing about this book is that it was written in 2003. Since then the Mexican occupation has doubled. Welfare to illegals is up to $20 BILLION in California. Welfare to illegals in sanctuary city Los Angeles is past $600 million per year, while Mexican gangs murder all over the state. Yet the lifer-politicians continue to fight for open borders, more perks for illegals, and their illegal votes!
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RANTING MEXICO NOW DEMANDS FREE MEDICAL FOR LA RAZA LOOTERS IN OUR BORDERS.
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/04/mexico-demands-free-health-care-for.html
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http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-to-go-when-your-local-emergency.html
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For some, a struggle WHO THINKS ABOUT THE STRUGGLE OF THE AMERICANS?
Some illegal immigrants have used stolen Social Security numbers to qualify for health programs -- a form of medical identity theft increasingly on hospital radars. Many more scramble to pay for their medicine and doctors visits in cash, a challenge in an economy where day-laborer work has dried up.
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