Unless the physicians can succinctly argue their case for care and services, the managed care entity will, for reasons of medical necessity, deny access to care and services.
What Cost-Added Ratio Based on Illegal Immigrant Population?
The argument by opponents that loopholes exist that would allow illegal immigrants to access Obama's proposed legislation on healthcare services is rendered moot in lieu of the fact that those illegal immigrants are currently receiving healthcare services Medicaid and through Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS). The Federal Reimbursement of Emergency Health Services Furnished to Undocumented Aliens states:
"Section 1011 of the (Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA) (P.L. 108-173)) MMA appropriated $250 million dollars in FY 2005 through 2008 for payments to eligible providers for emergency health services provided to undocumented aliens and other non-specified citizens who are not eligible for Medicaid (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2009, found online, p. 68)."
The Federal Government has long reimbursed providers for emergency services to undocumented (illegal) aliens. Opponents are not looking to the past costs of providing that care, but to the future cost of it, and it is not the cost of services to undocumented workers that would increase the cost to taxpayers, because they have been paying that cost for decades; but is the cost of U.S. citizens and legal immigrants whose incomes, in conjunction with the rising costs of managed care business practices resulting in increased patient shares, have made access to affordable healthcare premiums privately or through employer-based plans unaffordable to them. Here, we have demonstrated that the segment of the population that would benefit from this plan is not the undocumented illegal alien in the Hispanic segment of the CDC uninsured segment previously cited, but the legal U.S. citizen and immigrant or resident.
Why We Should Provide Healthcare to Undocumented Persons
When we consider the proximity of Mexico to the United States, indeed, Mexico and Latin America; we should have a strong and proactive interest in maintaining the health of those individuals in the southern continent, and especially those who cross the border into the United States illegally. The recent Swine Flu outbreak should serve to help reinforce that rationale. Infectious diseases are contagious, and if we do not take steps to treat to cure illegal aliens entering the country, and deport them with contagious diseases like tuberculosis and HIV / AIDS, then the risk of transferring those infectious diseases, and a plethora of other infectious diseases, to Americans increases with each case we deport to Mexico and Latin America without treating. This is especially true in the case of tuberculosis, a disease which can alter itself to immunity to known cures. To withhold or deny treatment and medical care to illegal aliens is putting at risk each and every person that comes into contact with that person. Also, sending them back to their country of origin without follow-up care means that likelihood that they will seek or receive proper care to resolve the disease once returned is increased, and the disease will mitigate any treatment medications used to combat it without follow-up to cure, potentially creating a new and untreatable virus or disease.
The estimated cost, according to a Center for American Progress report by Rajeev Goyle and David A. Jaeger, PhD (2005) estimated the cost to deport back to their country of origin all illegal aliens, some 10,000,000 people, to be approximately 206 billion dollars over five years (p. 3). This solution is not feasible for numerous reasons. First, the nature...
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