What do U think Calif. counties cutting healthcare to illegal immigrants?
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What do U think Calif. counties cutting healthcare to illegal immigrants?
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With budget problems afflicting counties across the state, some have begun eliminating healthcare to illegal immigrants. Critics say this will just further burden hospital emergency rooms.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."
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.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-immighealth27-2009apr27,0,3560878.story
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Joel W
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I was checking and it is important to know the number of illegal aliens coming into California is growing while the number of illegal aliens is also growing, but not at the same rate as it use to grow.
I have no idea what California Tax Payers are thinking, but I have a feeling they are going to just throw it in soon. |
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babs07
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A lot of illegal immigrants are leaving California and travelling back to Mexico due to the economy. The taxes that us tax payers pay are meant to fund citizens only. This is a political move and instead of cutting more funding on schools, they are stopping the funding of health care to people who are illegally here. |
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Norma
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Illegal immigrants should have no rights or entitlements. They are currently a drain on the American people. They expect free health care, free education, and other benefits that are not even given to American citizens who have worked hard to make America the best. |
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Rocky
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They're about ten years too late. |
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President Pelosi
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This will not do, we need to make them as dependent on the government as possible, we then give them amnesty and they will vote Democrat, I must instruct our token President to deal with this atrocity at once. |
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olin h
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It probably will cost more -- they should at least deport them when they go to the emergency room |
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legal lover :)
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they should have done that a long time ago. Tax paying citizens should never have to foot the bill for illegals. |
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SCOTT M
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Kick them the hell out of here and send them back to Mexico!
Many American citizens have poor healthcare. Why are we providing healthcare to ILLEGAL immigrants while our own people do without it?
We need to send Mexico a bill. If they don't pay it, we should allow them to replenish their population with millions of illegal immigrants. |
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mimi
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I think Cal should go even further and stop giving illegals Any kind of Welfare.But please allow us here in Texas to also do it at the same time because we don't need them traveling over land in their uninsured no licensed vehicles here.Stop all welfare and I would bet they would all go home.I promise |
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Jeffrey N
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It is about damn time. |
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Sunshine
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Before long, more people will need free services than there will be people who work to pay their taxes to pay for the ones who need help. Too often, people who are here legally and working hard and doing well are looked down upon because they do not want their hard earned $$$ to pay for health care for those who are in our country illegally.It certainly is a problem that seems to be getting worse and soon there will not be enough doctors or $$$ to care for those who even have the ability to pay for it. |
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