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  • Care costs for undocumented immigrants stack up [illegal aliens]

    09/04/2009 4:42:08 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 18 replies · 1,862+ views
    The Miami Herald ^ | 08/.26/2009 | JOHN DORSCHNER
    JACKSON HEALTH SYSTEM Facing ever-increasing financial losses, Miami-Dade's struggling Jackson Health System has spent $33 million this year alone on caring for undocumented immigrants. On a quiet street in northwestern Miami, a Jackson nursing home serves 60 undocumented immigrants -- some paralyzed, quite a few on ventilators -- costing Miami-Dade taxpayers about $318 a day per patient. ``There's no way to place them anywhere else,'' says Armand Gonzalez, administrator of the Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center. The cost of their care is part of the reason why the county's public hospital system is struggling with growing financial losses that border...