June 24, 2009
How Illegal Immigration Hurts Our Health Care
Most of the topics concerning illegal immigration I have only studied in depth but when it comes to health care I’ve actually conducted an interview in the health care field who can confirm most of what I read through research.
Since the majority of illegal immigrants work jobs under the table or in low level positions, few of them have health benefits through their employers (one of the reason employers like to hire illegal immigrants.) Some have health care through state aid (at taxpayer expense) but many just use the emergency room as a doctor’s office.
Basically for every ailment, large or small, they go to the E.R. where they have to treat you even without insurance and don’t ask for residency status. Oh, and they don’t ask for payment at the time of service either.
Due to the stack of medical bills unpaid by these illegal immigrants, the government has to dish out millions of dollars every year. Many hospitals find themselves forced to close, file bankruptcy or sell out due to lack of money. Illegal immigration is partially to blame for this tragedy.
Not to mention the patients who have to wait hours for emergency medical treatment due to waiting rooms crowded with undocumented residents.
America’s health care system has enough problems as it is. Insurance rates for patients and doctors are sky high. Even though our premiums keep going up, our benefits keep getting worse.
Do we really need a few million people sucking up our taxpayer money every time they become ill?
Certainly not.
