IN
MEX-OCCUPIED CA, ILLEGALS GET $1.3 BILLION DOLLARS IN “FREE” MEDICAL CARE AT
EMERGENCY ROOM HOSPITALS. NOT ONE HOSPITAL CAN SAY NO TO LA RAZA, AND NOT ONE
LEGAL VOTED TO BE MEXICO’S “FREE” HEALTHCARE SYSTEM!
OBAMA
LIED! THAT ILLEGALS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN OBAMACARE! HE AND LA RAZA PELOSI HAD
IT RIGGED. WHILE OBAMACARE WOULD APPEAR TO PREVENT ILLEGALS FROM GETTING IT, IT
ALSO PROHIBITS ANY HEALTHCARE PRACTIONER FROM ASKING THE LEGAL STATUS. MORE LA
RAZA SUPREMACY!
MEXICO
HAS 50 CONSULATES SCATTERED AROUND THE NATION. THEIR OBJECTIVE IS TO EXPAND LA
RAZA SUPREMACY, HAND OUT PHONY IDs, AND HELP MEXICANS GET “FREE” MEDICAL!
One
in five Americans had “unmet medical needs” in 2010
By
Kate Randall
9 May 2012
9 May 2012
Tens of millions of
American adults under age 65 saw their health care access worsen dramatically
over the past decade. One in five—both those with insurance and those
without—had an “unmet medical need” due to costs and other factors, according
to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs.
The study by
researchers for the Urban Institute finds that more Americans with private
insurance are delaying treatment due to rising out-of-pocket costs. Government
programs for the poor and uninsured are also not keeping pace with the demand
for care.
The study also
indicates that the health care legislation signed into law in 2010 cannot be
counted upon to solve these health care access problems. The Obama
administration-backed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is currently
under review by the US Supreme Court, is unlikely to alter the trend of private
insurers raising premiums and increasing deductibles and co-payments.
From 2000 to 2010,
the percentage of adults covered by private insurance who reported an “unmet medical
need” doubled, rising from 5 percent to 10 percent. According to the study,
those who delayed seeking care due to cost alone rose from 4 percent up to 7
percent.
Genevieve Kenney of
the Urban Institute, lead author of the study, suggests that private insurance
companies shifting more costs to patients is at the root of this change.
According to an earlier study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, employers
shifted more health care costs onto workers in 2010 in the form of higher
premiums, deductibles, co-pays and other cost sharing. (See “US companies shift bigger share of
health care costs onto workers”)
In 2010, the last
year studied by the Urban Institute, workers covered by employer-sponsored
health insurance paid an average of 30 percent of the premium for family
coverage, and 19 percent for an individual. There are no meaningful measures in
place in the health care overhaul to prevent private insurance companies from
hiking premiums or requiring the insured to shoulder more of the costs.
While a shortage of
doctors in some parts of the US may account for the reduced access to care,
this factor is not as important as cost. According to an analysis by the
consulting firm Milliman, health care costs for a family of four have more than
doubled since 2002. As Americans are struggling to pay more and more for
coverage, increasing numbers of people have less access to care.
A report last month
by the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics showed that visits to the
doctor by Americans in 2011 actually declined by 4.7 percent compared to 2010,
the last year covered by the Urban Institute study. This earlier report linked
the drop in care to loss of health insurance resulting from long-term unemployment
in the recession. (See “Americans cut back on doctor visits,
prescriptions”)
Poor adults and those
without insurance coverage are facing greater difficulties dealing with health
care costs as well as finding doctors who will treat them. The Urban Institute
researchers found that about one third of the 41 million adults without
insurance delayed getting care due to the cost. Nearly half of those insured in
2010 saw medical needs unmet for cost reasons, compared to about a third a
decade earlier.
The uninsured are
also far less likely than those with coverage to have a “usual source of care,”
such as a family doctor or community health center, according to the study. The
percentage of those without health coverage who lacked a regular health care
provider fell to 38 percent in 2010, down from 44 percent in 2000.
Among adults covered
by Medicaid, the state-federal insurance program for the poor, and other
government programs, 26 percent reported an unmet medical need in 2010, up from
20 percent in 2011. Nearly a quarter of adults in these public programs had
unmet dental needs, compared to 15 percent in 2000.
While the new health
care legislation does temporarily increase payments to primary care physicians
who see patients covered by Medicaid, it will not require doctors to take on
these patients, and many are already dropping them from their practices. As
adult dental coverage is optional under Medicaid, increasing numbers of states
do not provide it.
The Urban Institute
study follows a report released by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in
March that estimated as many as 20 million Americans could lose their
employer-sponsored coverage altogether under the new health care bill. Under
the CBO’s scenario, 3 million to 5 million people could lose their employer
health coverage each year from 2019 through 2022, as businesses opt out to trim
costs.
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20 million could lose employer coverage under Obama health care overhaul
By Kate Randall
17 March 2012
As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored coverage in 2019 under the health care legislation signed into law by President Obama in March 2010. This is the worst-case scenario set out by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a report released Thursday.
The CBO’s most optimistic estimate, which the federal agency says is subject to a “tremendous amount of uncertainty,” is that 3 million to 5 million could lose their employer health coverage each year from 2019 through 2022.
The new projections for loss of employee coverage are a substantial increase over last year’s estimates, when the CBO’s best prediction was that only 1 million people would lose employer-sponsored coverage.
The new study is the latest indication that the health care overhaul will result in a deterioration of health care for the majority of Americans, and not the improvement touted by the Obama administration. Working families and those in low-wage jobs stand to suffer the most from companies eliminating coverage.
As the World Socialist Web Site explained during the administration’s campaign for its health care “reform,” the scheme was the opposite of universal and quality health care for all. Drawn up in close consultation with the insurance, pharmaceutical and hospital industries as well as Wall Street, it was driven by a determination to reduce government deficits and health care costs at the expense of the working class. In addition to cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicare, the government health insurance program for the elderly, the plan is designed to ration health care on class lines, depriving millions of working people of benefits on which they currently rely.
Beginning in 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) will mandate individuals and families to obtain insurance or pay fines that could eventually rise to as much as 2 percent of income for all but the very poor. Those who purchase insurance on the health care “exchanges” set up under the PPACA will be at the mercy of private insurers who can increase premiums without any meaningful government oversight.
Companies with more than 50 employees that stop offering health coverage will be levied a $2,000 per employee tax penalty. The CBO projection indicates that a significant proportion of businesses will find it financially advantageous to drop coverage and pay the penalty.
The CBO’s worst-case scenario is in line with previous studies on the impact of the health care bill on employer coverage. A study released in August 2011 by human resources consultants Towers Watson showed that at least 9 percent of companies planned to drop their coverage by 2014. A study last June by the McKinsey Company showed that an even larger proportion, 30 percent, were likely to stop providing coverage when provisions of the PPACA take effect.
On the same day the CBO published its report, the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) released a national study showing that employer-provided health coverage has already been substantially eroded as a result of the recession. Between 2007 and 2010, the share of children and working-age adults covered by employer-sponsored health insurance dropped by 10 percentage points, from 63.6 percent to 53.5 percent.
The study notes that increased unemployment was the key driver of this loss of employer coverage, with the proportion of people younger than 65 with no employed workers in the household jumping to 31.6 percent in 2010—up 10 percent. This rise in joblessness accounted for approximately three-quarters of the drop in employer-provided health coverage since 2007.
However, the HSC study found that about 20 percent of those who lost their employer-sponsored health care from 2007 to 2010 were employed but either dropped from coverage by their employer or opted out of it. The survey also showed that a steady decline in employer health coverage was well underway before the official start of the recession in December 2007, with fewer companies offering coverage and fewer employees choosing to enroll because they could not afford to pay their portion of the cost of coverage.
Employer-sponsored coverage in the US is rarely provided free of charge to the employee. Going forward, it has still not been made clear precisely what level of coverage businesses will be required to offer their workers to qualify under the Obama health care legislation.
The HSC surveyed showed that employer-provided coverage has become increasingly unaffordable for a significant share of the workforce, particularly low-wage workers. Households with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty line—$44,100 for a family of four in 2010—saw employer-sponsored health care coverage drop dramatically, from 42 percent in 2001 to only 24 percent in 2010.
In addition to low-wage workers, segments of the population seeing a disproportionate decline in coverage were young adults, people with a high school education or less, and those employed in small firms.
In 2007, among those aged 18 to 27, 70 percent lived in a household where at least one member was working and 43 percent were covered by employer-sponsored health insurance. By 2010, only 50 percent lived in working households and employer coverage had dropped to 31 percent.
People in families headed by someone with a high school education or less saw their employer health coverage decline from 47 percent in 2007 to 36 percent in 2010. For those employed by companies with less than 100 workers, employer health coverage fell from 51 percent in 2007 to 45 percent in 2010.
As the CBO report demonstrates, the numbers of those losing their employer-sponsored coverage—whether they are dumped by their employer or can no longer afford it—will rise as a result of the Obama health care overhaul. This tendency will be exacerbated by the continuing rise of overall health care costs, driven in the main by the spiraling profits of the insurance companies and giant health care providers and pharmaceuticals.
A new report by the Annals of Family Medicine, a peer-reviewed medical journal, predicts that the average cost of health insurance for American families will surpass average household income by 2033.
The report finds: “If health insurance premiums and national wages continue to grow at recent rates and the U.S. health system makes no major structural changes, the average cost of a family health insurance premium will equal 50 percent of the household income by the year 2021, and surpass the average household income by the year 2033.”
The Obama-sponsored health bill is aimed, not at improving health care provision, but cutting costs for the government and corporations. From the beginning, the Obama administration has pitched the overhaul as “deficit neutral,” making the spurious claim that hundreds of billions can be slashed from Medicare and other government programs while improving the accessibility and quality of care.
Notably, the CBO report states that under the worst-case scenario—in which 20 million people lose their employer-sponsored coverage—the federal government will actually save $13 billion relative to baseline projections. Under conditions of skyrocketing health care costs, this can only be the result of reductions in care and forcing people into cut-rate plans on the “insurance exchanges,” or into Medicaid and other government programs that are being targeted for sweeping cuts.
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[28 July 2009]
HOSPITALS
IN MEX-OCCUPIED CA PUT OUT $1.3 BILLION IN “FREE” MEDICAL FOR ILLEGALS!
OBAMA
LIED!!! WHEN HE SAID ILLEGALS WERE NOT INCLUDED IN HIS OBAMAcare.
WE ARE
MEXICO’S WELFARE AND PRISON SYSTEM! IT IS TIME THEY PAY FOR THEIR OWN POOR,
ILLITERATE, CRIMINAL AND PREGNANT? THE LA RAZA DEMS SAY NO! GRINGOS WILL KEEP
PAYING! EVEN AS THESE VERY ILLEGALS HAVE OUR JOBS!
*
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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HERE’S HOW
WELL MEXICO’S WELFARE SYSTEM IN OUR BORDERS WORKS!
AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS – Illegals and the
MELTDOWN OF OUR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS ACROSS THE COUNTRY – The Ever Expanding
Mexican Welfare System
WHY WE ARE IN SUCH A MONEY SQUEEZE
Florida ER doctor's notes
Having spent three weeks in a hospital in Naples, Florida with my wife I couldn’t help noticing what was going on in the hospital and I had a lot of time to talk to the doctors and nurses about what I had observed. Below is a commentary from an ER Doctor. Do you think this might be a big reason our health care system and our social security system are so screwed up? Do you think this might be a big reason our taxes keep going up? Who do you think these people are going to vote for?
From a Florida ER doctor:
"I live and work in a state overrun with illegals. They make more money having kids than we earn working full-time. Today I had a 25-year old with 8 kids - thats right 8; all illegal anchor babies and she had the nicest nails, cell phone, hand bag, clothing, etc. She makes about $1,500 monthly for each; you do the math. I used to say, We are the dumbest nation on earth. Now I must say and sadly admit: WE are the dumbest people on earth (that includes ME) for we elected the idiot idealogues who have passed the bills that allow this. Sorry, but we need a revolution. Vote them all out in 2010. "
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Mexico Promotes Free U.S. Healthcare
For Illegal Immigrants
Time to wake up
people! With unemployment at 12% and the state going broke, our tax dollars are
going to pay for healthcare for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. To the
tune of over a billion dollars a year!
Read on:
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers its nationals--living in the U.S. illegally--to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
Read on:
Mexico's government operates programs in about a dozen American cities that refers its nationals--living in the U.S. illegally--to publicly funded health centers where they can get free medical care without being turned over to immigration authorities.
The program is called Ventanillas de Salud (Health Windows) in Spanish and its mission is to help illegal immigrants find U.S. hospitals, clinics and other government programs where they can get free services without being deported for violating federal immigration laws.
Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Indiana are among the cities where Mexican consulates operate the health referral system which annually costs U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. In Los Angeles County alone, illegal immigrants cost taxpayers nearly $440 million in health services annually and a whopping $1.1 billion statewide.
(THE
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES PUTS OUT $600 MILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS)
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
www.judicialwatchwatch.org
The Mexican consul in Los Angeles proudly announced that nearly 300,000 Mexicans in the area have benefited from his government's health referral program, which he says actually saves the county money by encouraging immigrants to seek preventive care rather than waiting for more expensive emergency treatment.
The Southern California operation promises to assess "consulate clients" for eligibility to government-funded health insurance and other primary care services and offers free legal assistance to those who are denied coverage. Its goal is to improve access to health services for immigrants of Mexican origin by formalizing a health education, medical home referral and insurance enrollment program.
In Chicago, the Mexican consul's Spanish-language web site heavily promotes the Illinois Department of Health's low-cost prescription medicine program for illegal aliens and various free medical services throughout the state. It encourages all Mexicans in the area to pursue the valuable U.S. government-financed services for their entire family.
The Indiana-based program boasts that it serves thousands of "Mexican nationals" living in that state as well as Ohio, Kentucky and southern Illinois. Mexican officials claim that its highly successful pro-health program sends out a clear message to other Mexican consulates throughout the country and the world.
Although these programs facilitate people to remain in the country illegally, Mexico is working hard to expand them to all 47 U.S. consulates to better serve its nationals. In the meantime, U.S. taxpayers will keep picking up the exorbitant tab of medically treating the millions who live in the country illegally.
www.judicialwatchwatch.org
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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com
PERHAPS AZ HAS HEARD THAT LOS
ANGELES COUNTY, MEXICO’S WELFARE AND FREE BIRTHING CENTER , PAYS OUT $600
MILLION IN WELFARE TO ILLEGALS!!! THAT’S JUST ONE COUNTY. THE STATE ITSELF ALS
PAYS OUT $20 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO ILLEGALS!
IN CA THERE HAVE BEEN 85 HOSPITALS
GO UNDER FROM LEGAL REQUIREMENT THAT HAND OVER “FREE” HEALTHCARE TO ILLEGALS!
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“Through love of having children,
we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN
CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
PUSHING BACK LA RAZA SUPREMACY IN
ARIZONA – UNDER MEX OCCUPATION
* From the
Los Angeles Times
California
counties cut healthcare to illegal immigrants
With budget
problems afflicting counties across the state, some have begun eliminating
healthcare to illegal immigrants. Critics say this will only shift the burden
to hospital emergency rooms.
By
Anna Gorman
April 27, 2009
Forced to slash their budgets, some California counties are eliminating nonemergency health services for illegal immigrants -- a move that officials acknowledge could backfire by shifting the financial burden to emergency rooms.
Sacramento County voted in February to bar illegal immigrants from county clinics at an estimated savings of $2.4 million. Contra Costa County followed last month by cutting off undocumented adults, to save approximately $6 million. And Yolo County is voting on a similar change next month, which would reduce costs by $1.2 million.
"This is a way for us to get through what I think is a horrible year for healthcare in California," said William Walker, director of Contra Costa Health Services.
Walker said the national ambivalence on immigration policy means that illegal immigrants are living here but without federal or state funding to provide essential medical services to them. Walker, who began his medical career treating undocumented farmworkers, said that deciding to cut their services was difficult.
"This is the community of people we have all relied upon for decades, providing work not only in construction but in service and child care," he said. "We all live and work here together."
Trend could spread
As the recession continues, property tax revenue decreases and the number of newly uninsured patients increases, other county health departments in California and the nation may make similar changes, said Robert Pestronk, executive director of the National Assn. of County and City Health Officials.
"Communities are having to make excruciating decisions about the services they fund," he said.
But Pestronk said that shifting costs isn't the answer.
"This is a balloon that just expands," he said. "If you squeeze it in one place, it's just going to expand somewhere else."
John Schunhoff, Los Angeles County's interim health services department director, said there is no plan to eliminate health services to the county's illegal residents, despite significant projected deficits and concern about further cuts in state funding.
Eliminating illegal immigrants from health services may enable counties to balance their budgets this year but won't solve the problem in the long term, said David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture.
"We are mortgaging the future to scrape through the present," he said.
And study after study shows that illegal immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born residents to go to the doctor or seek regular medical care, he said.
Anti-illegal immigration activist Barbara Coe said she was thrilled that counties are beginning to restrict services. Coe's group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform, sponsored Proposition 187, the initiative that tried to bar the state from providing public services to illegal immigrants before it died in federal court.
Illegal immigrants "have absolutely no right, No. 1, to be here and, No. 2, to take the tax dollars of law-abiding American taxpayers for anything," she said.
But the policy changes have angered immigrant rights advocates, who argue that restrictions could also cause a chilling effect on legal residents and U.S. citizens in mixed-status families.
"Even those people who qualify to get care won't," said Reshma Shamasunder, director of the California Immigrant Policy Center.
Shamasunder also said that denying healthcare to one segment of the population puts everyone else at risk as communicable diseases go untreated and emergency rooms become even more crowded.
Jose Suarez, who has asthma, said he now plans to go to the hospital if he gets sick. Suarez, 25, was born in Mexico but has been living in Contra Costa County for 10 years.
"It's unfair," he said. "We are real people. I understand they have to cut a few things here and there, but I believe they can do better."
Few options
Marina Espinoza, also an illegal immigrant in Contra Costa County, said she visits a county clinic a few times a month to monitor her diabetes and high blood pressure so that she doesn't end up in the hospital. Espinoza is considering returning to Mexico, where a relative has a lead on a job with health insurance.
"None of us choose to get sick," said Espinoza, 39. "I can't afford the medications. How can I pay for that? It's that or rent."
Before changing its policy on illegal immigrants, Sacramento County took several other steps to reduce healthcare costs, including closing three of its six clinics. But that wasn't enough, said Keith Andrews, chief of primary health services in the Department of Health and Human Services. Andrews said he was left with a choice between firing staff or reducing the number of patients. The county is continuing to treat everyone for communicable diseases.
Andrews said about 4,000 people without legal residency or citizenship were receiving healthcare in the county. Although some are immigrants who have lived and worked in the area for years, he said, others are foreign natives who came to the county to receive free medical treatment.
"This decision is going to impact all of our community," he said. "It's going to create other social problems because of the impact on emergency rooms."
Seeking solutions
In Contra Costa County, which will continue treating undocumented children and pregnant women, community groups mobilized against the proposal. They helped persuade county officials to allocate additional funds to the nonprofit community clinics to help treat the 5,500 undocumented patients who will no longer be eligible for county services.
Those patients will receive primary care at the clinics, but they won't have a place to go if they need to see a specialist, such as for cancer or heart problems.
"It's a major gap," said Soren Tjernell of the Community Clinic Consortium, which represents clinics in Contra Costa and Solano counties.
Yolo County's proposal, which goes before its Board of Supervisors on May 5, would affect about 1,200 undocumented patients. Joseph Iser, who heads the county health department, said he wished that he had another source of revenue to continue services for illegal immigrants.
"Except by helping us balance the budget, it doesn't help us, it doesn't help our citizens, it doesn't help our undocumented," he said. "But if we don't have the money, we just can't afford it."
April 27, 2009
Forced to slash their budgets, some California counties are eliminating nonemergency health services for illegal immigrants -- a move that officials acknowledge could backfire by shifting the financial burden to emergency rooms.
Sacramento County voted in February to bar illegal immigrants from county clinics at an estimated savings of $2.4 million. Contra Costa County followed last month by cutting off undocumented adults, to save approximately $6 million. And Yolo County is voting on a similar change next month, which would reduce costs by $1.2 million.
"This is a way for us to get through what I think is a horrible year for healthcare in California," said William Walker, director of Contra Costa Health Services.
Walker said the national ambivalence on immigration policy means that illegal immigrants are living here but without federal or state funding to provide essential medical services to them. Walker, who began his medical career treating undocumented farmworkers, said that deciding to cut their services was difficult.
"This is the community of people we have all relied upon for decades, providing work not only in construction but in service and child care," he said. "We all live and work here together."
Trend could spread
As the recession continues, property tax revenue decreases and the number of newly uninsured patients increases, other county health departments in California and the nation may make similar changes, said Robert Pestronk, executive director of the National Assn. of County and City Health Officials.
"Communities are having to make excruciating decisions about the services they fund," he said.
But Pestronk said that shifting costs isn't the answer.
"This is a balloon that just expands," he said. "If you squeeze it in one place, it's just going to expand somewhere else."
John Schunhoff, Los Angeles County's interim health services department director, said there is no plan to eliminate health services to the county's illegal residents, despite significant projected deficits and concern about further cuts in state funding.
Eliminating illegal immigrants from health services may enable counties to balance their budgets this year but won't solve the problem in the long term, said David Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture.
"We are mortgaging the future to scrape through the present," he said.
And study after study shows that illegal immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born residents to go to the doctor or seek regular medical care, he said.
Anti-illegal immigration activist Barbara Coe said she was thrilled that counties are beginning to restrict services. Coe's group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform, sponsored Proposition 187, the initiative that tried to bar the state from providing public services to illegal immigrants before it died in federal court.
Illegal immigrants "have absolutely no right, No. 1, to be here and, No. 2, to take the tax dollars of law-abiding American taxpayers for anything," she said.
But the policy changes have angered immigrant rights advocates, who argue that restrictions could also cause a chilling effect on legal residents and U.S. citizens in mixed-status families.
"Even those people who qualify to get care won't," said Reshma Shamasunder, director of the California Immigrant Policy Center.
Shamasunder also said that denying healthcare to one segment of the population puts everyone else at risk as communicable diseases go untreated and emergency rooms become even more crowded.
Jose Suarez, who has asthma, said he now plans to go to the hospital if he gets sick. Suarez, 25, was born in Mexico but has been living in Contra Costa County for 10 years.
"It's unfair," he said. "We are real people. I understand they have to cut a few things here and there, but I believe they can do better."
Few options
Marina Espinoza, also an illegal immigrant in Contra Costa County, said she visits a county clinic a few times a month to monitor her diabetes and high blood pressure so that she doesn't end up in the hospital. Espinoza is considering returning to Mexico, where a relative has a lead on a job with health insurance.
"None of us choose to get sick," said Espinoza, 39. "I can't afford the medications. How can I pay for that? It's that or rent."
Before changing its policy on illegal immigrants, Sacramento County took several other steps to reduce healthcare costs, including closing three of its six clinics. But that wasn't enough, said Keith Andrews, chief of primary health services in the Department of Health and Human Services. Andrews said he was left with a choice between firing staff or reducing the number of patients. The county is continuing to treat everyone for communicable diseases.
Andrews said about 4,000 people without legal residency or citizenship were receiving healthcare in the county. Although some are immigrants who have lived and worked in the area for years, he said, others are foreign natives who came to the county to receive free medical treatment.
"This decision is going to impact all of our community," he said. "It's going to create other social problems because of the impact on emergency rooms."
Seeking solutions
In Contra Costa County, which will continue treating undocumented children and pregnant women, community groups mobilized against the proposal. They helped persuade county officials to allocate additional funds to the nonprofit community clinics to help treat the 5,500 undocumented patients who will no longer be eligible for county services.
Those patients will receive primary care at the clinics, but they won't have a place to go if they need to see a specialist, such as for cancer or heart problems.
"It's a major gap," said Soren Tjernell of the Community Clinic Consortium, which represents clinics in Contra Costa and Solano counties.
Yolo County's proposal, which goes before its Board of Supervisors on May 5, would affect about 1,200 undocumented patients. Joseph Iser, who heads the county health department, said he wished that he had another source of revenue to continue services for illegal immigrants.
"Except by helping us balance the budget, it doesn't help us, it doesn't help our citizens, it doesn't help our undocumented," he said. "But if we don't have the money, we just can't afford it."
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Plus, outrage after President Obama prepares to push ahead with his plan for so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Pres. Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise to give
legal status to millions of illegal aliens as he panders to the pro-amnesty, open borders lobby.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Plus, outrage after President Obama prepares to push ahead with his plan for so-called comprehensive immigration reform. Pres. Obama is fulfilling a campaign promise to give
legal status to millions of illegal aliens as he panders to the pro-amnesty, open borders lobby.
Republican Gov. DAVE HEINEMAN of Nebraska will discuss a
bill he’s just signed that requires state and local agencies to verify the
legal status of anyone trying to collect public benefits. (don’t hold your
breath thinking this will ever happen in MEXIFORNIA!)
“What's needed to discourage
illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce
existing law.” CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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Ariz. may
require hospitals to check citizenship
By MICHELLE PRICE, Associated Press 17 mins ago
PHOENIX – Republican lawmakers want to widen Arizona's illegal
immigration crackdown with a proposal to require hospitals to check on whether
patients are in the country legally, causing outrage among medical
professionals who fear becoming de facto immigration agents under the law.
The medical industry ripped the bill Monday as it was scheduled
for a hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Doctors envisioned scenarios
in which immigrants with contagious diseases such as tuberculosis would stay
home from the clinic or hospital and put themselves and the public at a grave
health risk.
"This is making us into a police state that will try to catch
people when they are sick," said George Pauk, a retired doctor with an
organization called Physicians for a National Health Program. "Do we want
to stop sick people from coming in for health care?"
Arizona is the first Legislature to take up such a measure amid a
national push in conservative states to crack down on illegal immigration,
according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Arizona lawmakers
ignited the debate a year ago when they passed a bill that required local
police, while enforcing other laws, to question the immigration status of those
they suspect are in the country illegally. A judge later put that provision on
hold.
The discussion about the bill comes just days after an illegal
immigrant in Texas with a banana-size tumor in her spine said she was ousted
from her hospital because of her immigration status. She later found another
hospital to get treatment.
Supporters say the hospital bill is necessary tool to fight
illegal immigration at a time when hospitals lose tens of millions of dollars
treating illegal immigrants in emergency rooms.
Senate President Russell Pearce, a Mesa Republican who was chief
sponsor of last year's immigration law, says the hospitals bill is part of a
broader effort to crack down on illegal immigration. The hospitals bill
wouldn't bar people from getting care, but it would put the onus on hospitals
to "do due diligence," Pearce said. "We're going to enforce our
laws without apology."
Added Pearce: "It's the law. It's a felony to (aid and) abet.
We're going to enforce the law without apology."
Other sponsors of the bill did not immediately return calls
seeking comment. Discussion of the bill in the committee was put on hold late
Monday until a later date.
The legislation, known as Senate Bill 1405, would require
hospitals, when admitting nonemergency cases, to confirm that a person seeking
care is a U.S. citizen or in the country legally. In emergency cases where the
patient isn't here legally, the hospital would be required to call immigration
authorities after the treatment is done. Hospitals in non-emergency situations
would also be required to contact federal immigration authorities, but they
would have more apparent discretion about whether to treat illegal immigrants.
Opponents say the bill could pose serious health risks to those
here legally and illegally. They believe the threat of deportation would keep
some people from seeking health care for everything from emergency situations
to measures such as vaccinations, potentially leading to preventable deaths.
They also said it would increase hospitals' already-strained workload.
"You are now turning medical professionals into full-time INS
agents," said Democratic state Sen. Steve Gallardo, speaking at a news
conference Monday. "Doctors that should be working to help treat ill
patients are now turning into ICE agents."
Nicole Russell is the mother of a 3-year-old daughter named Kira,
and she could not envision what it would be like for a parent to decide whether
or not to take their child to the hospital for fear of being reported to the
authorities.
"I can't imagine putting the health care of my daughter in
the hands of politicians," she said.
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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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MEXICO BREEDS AN OCCUPATION AND HANDS US THE TAX
BILLS FOR THEIR WELFARE STATE IN OUR BORDERS!
“Through love of having children, we are going to take over.” AUGUSTIN CEBADA, BROWN BERETS, THE LA RAZA FASCIST PARTY
http://www.aztlan.net/anchor_baby_power.htm
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LA RAZA WELFARE IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY ALONE:
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)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949085/posts
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EXPORTING POVERTY... we take MEXICO'S 38 million poor, illiterate, criminal and frequently pregnant
The Mexican
Invasion................................................
Mexico prefers to export its poor, not uplift them
Where To Go When Your Local Emergency Room Goes Bankrupt?"
During the past ten
years 84 California hospitals have declared bankruptcy and closed their
Emergency Rooms forever. Financially crippled by legislative and judicial
mandates to treat illegal aliens have bankrupted hospitals! In 2010, in Los
Angeles County alone, over 2 million illegal aliens recorded visits to county
emergency rooms for both routine and emergency care. Per official figures, the
cost is $1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles County.
http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2011/03/where-to-go-when-your-local-emergency.html
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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
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Is Obama no longer serving the Mexican Fascist Party of LA RAZA?
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THE PURPOSE OF LA RAZA “THE RACE” IS TO EXPAND THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, AND MAKE SURE THAT LAWS NEVER APPLY TO ILLEGALS.
PRESS RELEASE FROM LA RAZA.
That seems to be the same conclusion over at the National Council of La Raza:
Yesterday, the White House released a plan that once again excluded proposals to adequately address high uninsurance rates in the Latino community. It missed out on a key opportunity to fix serious flaws in Senate health care reform legislation, bypassing a number of pending legislative priorities that are critical to Latinos' well-being.
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Pro-Illegal-Immigration 'La Raza' Blasts Obama Health Plan . . . (for Not Including Illegal Aliens)
Pro-Illegal-Immigration 'La Raza' Blasts Obama Health Plan for Not Including Illegal Aliens
By Roy Beck, - posted on NumbersUSA
The open-borders lobby is wailing about Pres. Obama's health care compromise, and that seems like it should be good news on the immigration front.
They say the President is leaving all illegal aliens out of the plan. And they are calling on their activists to phone the White House to demand that illegal aliens be included.
Pres. Obama's printed outline of changes doesn't mention immigration status at all. That certainly alarmed us at first.
You may recall that the President promised last summer that illegal aliens will not be included in any part of a new national health care plan. The Senate followed that for the most part in the bill it passed (as opposed to the House bill which is wide open for illegal-alien use).
Our NumbersUSA experts on the Hill have told me that they believe the Senate bill remains operative except in the cases of changes outlined by Obama this week. That should mean that illegal aliens are excluded.
That seems to be the same conclusion over at the National Council of La Raza:
Yesterday, the White House released a plan that once again excluded proposals to adequately address high uninsurance rates in the Latino community. It missed out on a key opportunity to fix serious flaws in Senate health care reform legislation, bypassing a number of pending legislative priorities that are critical to Latinos' well-being.
U.S. Latinos should be furious with the way the National Council of La Raza equates Latinos with illegal aliens.
The fact is that the Obama plan doesn't treat Latino Americans any differently than any other Americans. But it does treat legal U.S. residents differently than illegal ones. And La Raza should keep in mind that illegal aliens aren't just Latino but come in every nationality and ethnicity.
La Raza's action alert vilifies Obama's plan for requiring verification of a person's eligibility to have access to the government health coverage.
The pro-Amnesty, pro-illegal-immigration National Council of La Raza continued its recent attacks on Obama:
Unfortunately, the failure of the White House to act on these core priorities is more of the same inaction that we have seen in the past year. It is clear to NCLR that unless Latinos speak up now, we will continue to have our priorities undermined in the future.
-- National Council of La Raza
-- ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
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THIS IS THE REALITY OF WHY OUR BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN AND UNDEFENDED:
MOST OF THE FORTUNE 500 ARE GENEROUS DONORS TO LA RAZA – THE MEXICAN FASCIST POLITICAL PARTY
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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor
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LA RAZA IS THE FASTEST GROWING POLITICAL PARTY IN AMERICA.
IT IS THE FASCIST PART FOR MEXICAN SUPREMACY
LA RAZA – “THE (MEXICAN) RACE”….
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
1126 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
202-785 1670
Get on La Raza’s email list to find out what this fascist party is doing to expand the Mexican occupation. NCLR.org
FOR THE EXPANSION OF THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE, AND MEXICAN SUPREMACY
LA RAZA is the virulently racist political party for ILLEGALS (only Mexicans) and the corporations that benefit from illegals, and the employers of illegals. IT IS ILLEGAL TO HIRE AN ILLEGAL.
LA RAZA IS THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of AMERICA and has contempt for AMERICANS, AMERICAN LAWS, AMERICAN LANGUAGE, AMERICAN BORDERS, and the AMERICAN FLAG.
However LA RAZA does like the AMERICAN WELFARE SYSTEM. The welfare system in the country is so good that Mexico has dumped 38 million of their poor, illiterate , criminal and frequently pregnant over our border.
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