Posted on 03/13/2005 3:59:13 PM PST by Dan Evans
The influx of illegal aliens has serious hidden medical consequences. We judge reality primarily by what we see. But what we do not see can be more dangerous, more expensive, and more deadly than what is seen.
Illegal aliens’ stealthy assaults on medicine now must rouse Americans to alert and alarm. Even President Bush describes illegal aliens only as they are seen: strong physical laborers who work hard in undesirable jobs with low wages, who care for their families, and who pursue the American dream.
What is unseen is their free medical care that has degraded and closed some of America’s finest emergency medical facilities, and caused hospital bankruptcies: 84 California hospitals are closing their doors. “Anchor babies” born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income.
What is seen is the illegal alien who with strong back may cough, sweat, and bleed, but is assumed healthy even though he and his illegal alien wife and children were never examined for contagious diseases.
By default, we grant health passes to illegal aliens. Yet many illegal aliens harbor fatal diseases that American medicine fought and vanquished long ago, such as drug-resistant tuberculosis, malaria, leprosy, plague, polio, dengue, and Chagas disease. What is seen is the political statistic that 43 million lives are at risk in America because of lack of medical insurance.
What is unseen is that medical insurance does not equal medical care. Uninsured people receive medical care in hospital emergency departments (EDs) under the coercive Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), which obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay for that care.
(Excerpt) Read more at jpands.org ...
For the condensed version see the WorldNetDaily article on this report:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43275
If this isn't a dire warning on the dangers of illegal immigration, then nothing is. There isn't a whole lot of time remaining till we have a full-blown national crisis here--one that will have far reaching repercussions.
I have been a strong supporter of the President on almost everything except his administration's half ostrich approach to the perils of illegal immigration and a fully substantive program at resolving the situation. The longer he waits and dallies, the worse it becomes.
It's amazing to me how many people continue to have their heads in the sand over this issue.
You'd think hospitals closing down might get their attention, but I guess there's the Oscars and March Madness.
BTTT
"Uninsured people receive medical care in hospital emergency departments (EDs) under the coercive Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA), which obligates hospitals to treat the uninsured but does not pay for that care."
You state:
"It's amazing to me how many people continue to have their heads in the sand over this issue."
Yea, but ths "issue" is not what you think it is.
The issue is a constitutional issue.
Amendment V
"nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 98—963
JEREMIAH W. (JAY) NIXON, ATTORNEY GENERAL OF MISSOURI, et al., PETITIONERS v. SHRINK MISSOURI GOVERNMENT PAC et al.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
[January 24, 2000]
Justice Stevens, concurring.
"...therefore, I make one simple point. Money is property;"
The EMTALA is blatantly and unambiguously unconstitutional but no one, no citizen, no hospital adiministrator, and you would never see a legislator ever suggest such a thought.
If there was "compensation" for the taking, then the law would be constitutional.
Ping for 7.oo an hour jobs Americans don't want.
Interesting and very disturbing article.
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons,,,aaaaa what do they know?
This isn't a joke folks Write your senators and congress and make them get our Presidents attention. ENOUGH already!!
Amen.
bttt
What is unseen is their free medical care that has degraded and closed some of America’s finest emergency medical facilities, and caused hospital bankruptcies...
“Anchor babies” born to illegal aliens instantly qualify as citizens for welfare benefits and have caused enormous rises in Medicaid costs and stipends under Supplemental Security Income and Disability Income...
Don't anybody fool themselves...
You pay $1000 and month for health insurance to help defer the cost of the illegal's own FREE health care.
Through YOUR taxes, welfare supplements whatever wages they earn "picking lettuce."
Illegal Invaders are suucinctly a HUGE net loss for America.
Here along the border we are loosing our trauma centers because of the cost of treating these illegals!
Outstanding post: read the entire article!
And it's a shell game. If one hospital closes its doors the illegals go to another one. They all do end up getting care somewhere, and you end up paying for it.
People say that we have to let immigrants, legal and otherwise, into our country to do the $5 and $7 jobs no American wants to do. But I'd make a few arguments about this.
First, anyone who works in construction can tell you that for the majority of immigrants, the $5.25 or $7 job is just a starting place. As soon as the illegal immigrant learns a little English he can command a higher rate of compensation. So now he's not just taking "the jobs no American wants to do," but jobs many Americans would like.
Second, those $5.25 jobs used to be done in part by America's working teenagers and college kids. These kids are having a hard time finding jobs to pay for their education because immigrants are sucking up the jobs.
Third, we have millions of unemployed people in our inner cities. If we weren't supporting them through welfare payments, they'd have to get off their butts, stop reproducing ad lib., and take the lower-paying jobs.
Enjoy you CHEAP LETTUCE !
bttt
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