what do you think about the "study" being done by UCLA that claims there's no health care burden caused

Question

by the illegal aliens who have been using the ER and other medical services for free for God knows how long?

Answer 1

Maybe they should let USC do the study instead.

Answer 2

It is like all the other studies that pick and choose what to look at. It says they use less health care because they can only get free emergency care, but doesn't point out how much that costs in real dollars and doesn't count up birth and prenatal costs or count as part of the burden their children born here, since those are citizens. However, they are still a huge part of the cost that wouldn't exist had they not come illegally.

This is smoke and mirrors, and really pisses me off. The reason I am furious about this topic is because the media which is supposed to be our protection against corrupt government spins the facts to get the public response they want, rather than reporting them. And they spin it the same way the government has, until forced to face the issue. You can find the numbers, but you really have to research them, while they report loudly in a very disingenuous manner. They are losing credibility with a lot of people who had never researched before to see if the press was one step away from lying, like me.

Not to mention, how much do you think an illegal immigrant would say he used of free health care? How credible is a 'study' like that?

Answer 3

The UCLA is a JOKE. They have done far more damage to this country then anyone can fathom.

Anything they get into always runs amock.

I dont believe a word they say.

Just talk to doctors at some of the hospitals that have had to close their ER's because of ILLEGAL INVADERS using them as General Doctor visits!

The facts are right there, but the UCLA just want us all to believe that it is not a problem.

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Answer 4

Excerpt from the article:
"...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..."

How did they validate the truthfulness of answers obtained in the survey?
They could have provided us with a simple statistics - number of non-paid visits to ER rooms in border states compared to states with lower illegal aliens population and see if there is any correlation.

Answer 5

Let them do a study of why my health premium has tripled in 4 years then. I'm in my 20's and have been to a doctor 3 times in this period for minor check-ups.

The health care people are not burden because we have to pay for those illegals whom do not in our higher premiums, so the "health care people" are still getting paid.

Answer 6

my guess is they didn't study El Paso or Del Rio, Texas.

or any other border county either [except maybe San Diego]. Those folk are going broke down there trying to keep the ERs open because no insurance cases are running 40% of their volume and higher.

I challenge UCLA to take over and run the hospitals in El Paso. Same tax rates as Des Moines, Iowa and UCLA covers any fiscal shortfall.

Answer 7

I would believe that the "study" is being conducted by illegal aliens under the Dream Act.

Answer 8

All I have heard of it is what i have read here in this question. I wonder if they would claim I would be a burden by attending their classes with out paying.

Answer 9

It wasn't a "study", it was a telephone survey conducted 4 years ago. Do you think illegal alien criminals are going to ADMIT that they use our medical services for free????

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/us_nm/immigrants_health_dc

Answer 10

I would seriously doubt their sources since I have a best friends who is a hospital administrator and another who is an ER doc.

Answer 11

Well the rest of the country views much of California so far left of the rest of the country, we really don't put much stock in anything that happens there. Sorry, but true.