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Illegal immigrants not U.S. health care burden: study
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Posted on 11/26/2007 1:28:09 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Illegal immigrants not U.S. health care burden: study Mon Nov 26, 2007 4:14pm EST

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illegal Latino immigrants do not cause a drag on the U.S. health care system as some critics have contended and in fact get less care than Latinos in the country legally, researchers said on Monday.

Such immigrants tend not to have a regular doctor or other health-care provider yet do not visit emergency rooms -- often a last resort in such cases -- with any more frequency than Latinos born in the United States, according to the report from the University of California's School of Public Health.

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.

About 8.4 million of the 10.3 million illegal aliens in the United States are Latino, of which 5.9 million are from Mexico, the report said.

"One recurrent theme in the debate over immigration has been the use of public services, including health care," Ortega's team wrote in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

"Proponents of restrictive policies have argued that immigrants overuse services, placing an unreasonable burden on the public. Despite a scarcity of well-designed research ... use of resources continues to be a part of the public debate," they said.

The researchers said illegal Mexican immigrants had 1.6 fewer visits to doctors over the course of a year than people born in the country to Mexican immigrants. Other undocumented Latinos had 2.1 fewer physician visits than their U.S.-born counterparts, they said.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; closedemergencyrooms; crimaliens; freeloaders; healthcare; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; welfare
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Just damn amazing...........
1 posted on 11/26/2007 1:28:10 PM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

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


2 posted on 11/26/2007 1:29:12 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Sub-Driver
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...

3 posted on 11/26/2007 1:30:32 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Sub-Driver

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

And who paid for this study?


4 posted on 11/26/2007 1:30:48 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Fred Thompson in '08)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


5 posted on 11/26/2007 1:31:56 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


6 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:01 PM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: massgopguy

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

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

: )


7 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:11 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

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


8 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:11 PM PST by BGHater (Lead. The MSG for the 21st Century.)
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To: Sub-Driver
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

9 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:11 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver

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......


10 posted on 11/26/2007 1:32:53 PM PST by ladtx ( "Never miss a good chance to shut up." - - Will Rogers)
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To: Dead Corpse

” 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!


11 posted on 11/26/2007 1:33:05 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Figures lie and Liars Figure...


12 posted on 11/26/2007 1:33:15 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


13 posted on 11/26/2007 1:33:25 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Sub-Driver
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.

14 posted on 11/26/2007 1:33:43 PM PST by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Sub-Driver

bump


15 posted on 11/26/2007 1:33:49 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: Sub-Driver

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


16 posted on 11/26/2007 1:34:07 PM PST by Uncle Hal
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"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.

17 posted on 11/26/2007 1:34:09 PM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


18 posted on 11/26/2007 1:34:24 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Fred Thompson in '08)
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To: massgopguy

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.


19 posted on 11/26/2007 1:34:44 PM PST by businessprofessor
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


20 posted on 11/26/2007 1:35:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne (California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
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