tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23751890.post7113474771424544343..comments2024-01-28T09:27:20.490-06:00Comments on Century of the Common Iowan: Ilegal Immigrants Don't Cause Problems in the Health Care Systemnoneed4thneedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00722983760373724246noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23751890.post-22584232161213268232007-12-03T09:19:00.000-06:002007-12-03T09:19:00.000-06:00Note, this comment does not take a position on imm...Note, this comment does not take a position on immigration. It is just a critique in the flaws of this study, and interpretations of this study.<BR/><BR/>I believe you are mis-interpreting this study. This study certainly indicates that the impact of Illegals on the health care system may be less than previously thought, it does not indicated that they are not the source or not a contribution to the problem.<BR/><BR/>Each illegal immigrant that uses the service results in spent resources that could have been reduced cost for legals, or free service given to legals.<BR/><BR/>For example, if we hypothetically say that the average legal resident has a 5% chance of using the emergency room per year (completely made up # of course), then this study indicates that the average illegal has a 2.5% chance of using the same service.<BR/><BR/>Now, multiply that chance by the number of illegals, and you can see that there is still a significant impact. <BR/><BR/>Also (and possibly more importantly) This study does not evaluate the demographics that affect hospitals. Some hospitals (such as inner city hospitals in the south west) will disproportionately need to service illegals. I would conjecture that in some locals a hospital or clinic may in fact be utilized almost entirely by illegals. Therefore, while the national impact may be absorbed, the local impact may be catastrophic. to compound this issue, those same inner city hospitals are likely underfunded, understaffed, and under equipped compared to the average national hospital, and therefore double unable to absorb this impact.Gaijin42https://www.blogger.com/profile/10100023887443985437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23751890.post-44284022468528425802007-11-29T17:15:00.000-06:002007-11-29T17:15:00.000-06:00Of course illegal aliens are 50% less likely to vi...Of course illegal aliens are 50% less likely to visit the doctors office than natural born Latinos. <BR/><BR/>1. They don't want to get caught and deported.<BR/><BR/>2. When in Mexico they live in much more harsh conditions were you may be worse off if you go to the hospital. Once in America, they still have that same mindset.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com