U.S. Health Care Resources Not Burdened By Undocumented Immigrants (Uni of California

darkcrow

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/27/healthcare-immigrant/

FACT CHECK: U.S. Health Care Resources Not Burdened By Undocumented Immigrants
A new study by the University of California’s School of Public Health finds that illegal immigrants do not pose as significant a burden on U.S. Health Care resources as is often claimed. Undocumented immigrants are less likely to have insurance, but seek out health care in much lower numbers:

“Low rates of use of health-care services by Mexican immigrants and similar trends among other Latinos do not support public concern about immigrants’ overuse of the health care system,” the researchers wrote.

“Undocumented individuals demonstrate less use of health care than U.S.-born citizens and have more negative experiences with the health care that they have received,” they said.

The study is based on a 2003 survey of 42,044 people. Researchers compared the health care habits of U.S.-based Mexicans and Latinos and grouped the results according to citizenship or other status.

Among the other findings:

– Undocumented Mexican and Latin American immigrants “are 50% less likely than U.S.-born Latinos to use hospital emergency rooms in California.”

– Mexican Immigrants paid “1.6 fewer visits to doctors” per year than by those born in the U.S. to Mexican immigrants.

– Other “undocumented Latinos had 2.1 fewer physician visits than their U.S.-born counterparts.”

Not only are undocumented immigrants not a burden on the U.S. health care system, but as Alexander N. Ortega, an associate professor at UCLA’s School of Public Health and the study’s lead author points out, they “seem to be underutilizing the system, given their health needs.”

– Dave de Give

onelongsong

darkcrow wrote:

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/27/healthcare-immigrant/

FACT CHECK: U.S. Health Care Resources Not Burdened By Undocumented Immigrants
A new study by the University of California’s School of Public Health finds that illegal immigrants do not pose as significant a burden on U.S. Health Care resources as is often claimed. Undocumented immigrants are less likely to have insurance, but seek out health care in much lower numbers:

“Low rates of use of health-care services by Mexican immigrants and similar trends among other Latinos do not support public concern about immigrants’ overuse of the health care system,” the researchers wrote.

“Undocumented individuals demonstrate less use of health care than U.S.-born citizens and have more negative experiences with the health care that they have received,” they said.

The study is based on a 2003 survey of 42,044 people. Researchers compared the health care habits of U.S.-based Mexicans and Latinos and grouped the results according to citizenship or other status.

Among the other findings:

– Undocumented Mexican and Latin American immigrants “are 50% less likely than U.S.-born Latinos to use hospital emergency rooms in California.”

– Mexican Immigrants paid “1.6 fewer visits to doctors” per year than by those born in the U.S. to Mexican immigrants.

– Other “undocumented Latinos had 2.1 fewer physician visits than their U.S.-born counterparts.”

Not only are undocumented immigrants not a burden on the U.S. health care system, but as Alexander N. Ortega, an associate professor at UCLA’s School of Public Health and the study’s lead author points out, they “seem to be underutilizing the system, given their health needs.”

– Dave de Give

so the uni of little mexico did this study. imagine that.

SilverSeed

onelongsong wrote:

so the uni of little mexico did this study. imagine that.

The UC system is the best public secondary education system in the country. Possibly the world.

prism

b...bu...but illegal immigrants are such convenient scapegoats to blame for everything that's wrong with this country! who are conservatives going to put the blame on now, instead of addressing the REAL ISSUES?


betcha Lou Dobbs is shitting a brick right about now.

Cosmo

The thing is... most of us cannot tell an illegal immigrant from a legal immigrant, just by looking at them. Well, maybe ONE of us can... but, I can't.
Therefore, I would not assume that all of the Latino faces I would see in the L.A. County Medical Center were here illegally. I would simply guess that they all did not have any health insurance because they cannot afford it.