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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Ahhh, isn’t that special.
That's just...bullcrap. The illegals breeze right through the emergency rooms without having to pay a cent. Americans have to sign their souls away if the don't have insurance to be seen by a doctor in the ER. California is illegal alien heaven.
If we had a government with a spine, Mexico would have been billed long ago for the billions of dollars its castoffs cost us.
Ping!
that’s a laugh.
many mexicans in the u.s. have better health care
than americans.
I need a doctor! I'm sick of this mess!
"Zee same zuckers ve haff paying for all der childrens now - Huhuhuhu!"
(schadenfreude shadows face, fade to black...)
I just say get a gun and point them back towards the way they came. I am tired of being hosed by our guberment, BUSH HAS NO BALLS. We wre tricked into electing his jokeness.
For what it’s worth, the writer of this article is a Boston Brahmin, direct decendant of a slave trader and opium dealer of 150 - 200 years ago. Love those Boston liberals.
If Mexicans are such "a human asset", why does their government do every thing it can to get rid of them?
I watched a group of six hispanics that collectively weighed 2000lbs+ go after a buffet at a casino in Reno Nevada. It was horrible to watch.
Interesting—
how about it if he takes th em home and starts treating his own people better.
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