Illegal immigrants not U.S. health care burden: study

Reuters ^

[Sub-Driver]

Just damn amazing...........

[massgopguy]

I guess we just imagined all those hospitals closed down along the border.

[Dead Corpse]

I was in the Emergency room 3 times the 7 years I lived in Austin Texas.

I could have shortened my wait time to mere seconds just by walking in with an ICE hat on...

[NoKoolAidforMe]

Yeah, they’re no burden at all on our health care system.

And who paid for this study?

[edcoil]

Clearly no one did the study in an ER room at any public hospital.

[RKV]

Valid data from a phone survey of illegals? My RIA.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“I guess we just imagined all those hospitals closed down along the border”

That is right.............they never closed you racist pig!!

: )

[BGHater]

I guess they didn’t read this:
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no1/cosman.pdf

[goldstategop]

Junk science tripe peddled by the Open Borders Crowd to tell us illegal immigration is harmless. This "study" deserves to be tossed in the wastebasket.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[ladtx]

Reuters, who are you going to believe, illegals polled by phone 4 years ago or American hospitals who have said it is a problem. Oh yeah this is Reuters, nevermind......

[stephenjohnbanker]

” was in the Emergency room 3 times the 7 years I lived in Austin Texas.
I could have shortened my wait time to mere seconds just by walking in with an ICE hat on...”

LMBO!

[darkwing104]

Figures lie and Liars Figure...

[Slapshot68]

It is amazing...my sister’s friend is a nurse in the ER and she’s told us illegals come in every night who can’t pay.

This story is bogus.

[xtinct]

And this study is BS where Massachusetts is concerned because everyone in the State is suppose to be insured.

And, if the person can't afford it, that person is covered by Mass Health.

So the above article is hogwash on MA.

It's also hogwash in that many hospital emergency rooms on the Mexican border have closed because they cannot afford the FREE emergency care given to illegals.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Uncle Hal]

I notice the guy leading the study is named Ortega. Do you think he might be biased? Just asking.

[Diogenesis]

"The finding from Alexander Ortega and colleagues at the school was based on a 2003 telephone survey of thousands of California residents,
including 1,317 undocumented Mexicans, 2,851 citizens with Mexican immigrant parents, 271 undocumented Latinos from countries other than Mexico and 852 non-Mexican Latinos born in the United States.

So there is no basis for the conclusion. Garbage in. Garbage out.

[NoKoolAidforMe]

I spent a Wednesday in the ER not so long ago in a NYC suburban hospital. I was the only person in the ER who was a native born, English-speaking, insured individual. I had to beg for a room to keep my ill husband overnight while I overhead Spanish-speaking patients being given rooms and appointments with social workers for minor ailments. What a crock.

[businessprofessor]

These people should observe the illegals in a natural setting to see their attitude towards resource usage. One illegal in Arizona summarized the attitude very well: “In Mexico, we pay for health. Here it is free.” If any resource is underutilized, it is only for fear of deportation. Amnesty will cause an explosion of welfare costs for health care, housing, food stamps, and racial preferences.

[DoughtyOne]

If one illegal gets healthcare for free, was that illegal alien a burden or not? Now, multiply that by 30 million.

My study differs from this POS disinformation effort.