Posted on 04/24/2007 9:44:00 AM PDT by Zakeet
Mexico's new secretary of health visited San Francisco on Monday to learn about the health needs of the millions of Mexican immigrants living in California and to further collaborate with state officials to meet those needs.
"We can build a new model for attention to the health needs of Mexican workers here," said Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos, appointed by Mexico's new president, Felipe Calderon.
The former hospital chief and medical school director from the state of Guanajuato said he plans to meet every six months with U.S. health officials and Mexican immigrant communities to create a basic health care plan to cover Mexicans in the United States and eventually extend to them a system of universal health care that is being developed by the Calderon administration.
Cordova, who came here from a meeting on border issues in Tijuana, spoke with reporters at the Mexican consulate and then met with Bay Area groups that provide health care to Mexican immigrants. He planned to end his one-day trip to the Bay Area, his first official visit to this country, by hosting a dinner at Tommy Toy's restaurant with officials of the University of California, the governor's office, and the state and federal health departments.
UC researchers, who have been working with Mexico on immigrant health since 2000, have found that Mexican immigrants -- legal and illegal -- generally arrive here healthy but see their health deteriorate within several years in large part because they lack access to health care while they are in the United States.
Almost 6 million of the estimated 11 million Mexican immigrants in the United States are uninsured, researchers found, primarily because they work in jobs that don't offer health insurance.
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What about improving healthcare for native Californians in Mexico?
If mexico provided any health care for its own people, half of them would not even be here.
If Mexican workers don’t like it here then they can GO HOME!
From putting on the extra 50-100 lbs?
Great. Universal healthcare for Illegals paid for by American taxpayers. Hillary! will be in charge of it no doubt.
Right now - right here - I believe the word chutzpah (No, I don’t know exactly how to spell it. Did I get it right?) should be changed from Yiddish directly to Spanish. Mexicans now have the best claim.
Amazing that our CIC won’t stand up to this sort of thing. A foreign leader coming into our country and saying we need to spend billions on his citizens? Absurd. But Bush has continued to bend over for Mexico throughout his presidency to the detriment of the United States and against his oath of office.
Any Mexicans in California who need health care could go back home and get it.
No questions asked.
When he leaves, he needs to take his people back with him and work out THEIR health care back in THEIR country.
This is stupid.
The US and Mexican governments are at war with the citizens of the United States.
Oh Please. Mr. Bush will be the first to propose it.
This is sickening.
Let me rephrase that.
The war is over, and the defeated taxpaying citizens are now slaves. We are to provide and care for our new lords.
Mex Govt with fancy words and hidden meanings is saying to the US: support our illegals with free health care at your expense naturally.
Yeah, how about MEXICO extends some kind of health care for the people they have there?
Most of the people who come over here are accustomed to having the village medicine woman supply them with the herbs and soothing ointments. The first time many of them have EVER been examined by a medical professsional, is when they are admitted to a US hospital emergency room.
I am currently wrapping my head in duct tape before it EXPLODES!!!
In a democracy, when the majority of voters want to be slaves we all become slaves. This is were we live.
I say we just send Mexico the bill!
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