Sunday, December 02, 2007
Immigration - Undocumented Health Care
I'm sure we're going to see much more of this.
I'm assuming that the Southwestern states are the most affected.
It will be interesting to see how it all gets resolved...
I'm assuming that the Southwestern states are the most affected.
It will be interesting to see how it all gets resolved...
In the Galveston Daily News, Laura Elder writes about the issues:
"The University of Texas Medical Branch is considering a policy that would deny cancer care to indigent, undocumented immigrants — an unusual and controversial move for a state-funded institution.
Medical branch officials are forming the policy as they strain to stretch dwindling state dollars for uninsured patients and while illegal immigration ranks among the most divisive issues in the nation.
Turning away undocumented cancer patients undoubtedly would pull the oldest medical school east of the Mississippi into a fierce contemporary debate about the legality and fairness of treating undocumented immigrants with tax dollars when millions of uninsured legal residents can’t afford health care.
It also will force the institution to face thorny questions about simple compassion and the limits of a physician’s duty to treat the ailing."
