Health care law ignores illegal immigrants; hospitals may get stuck with the bill

[Acid Trip]

Hospital leaders told The New York Times they're wary of terms in the health care reform law that will eventually halve the amount of money they receive for caring for uninsured people without addressing the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the country, most of them lacking insurance.

Emergency rooms are required to take in all patients, insured or uninsured, under a federal law signed by President Ronald Reagan. The government used a pot of about $20 billion to reimburse hospitals each year for this care. But that pot is going to be cut in half by 2019, under the reasoning that the health care law will dramatically cut the number of people who don't have insurance, thus saving hospitals money. The calculation leaves out one key group of uninsured people: illegal immigrants, who will not be required to buy health insurance or be eligible for Medicaid, or be allowed to purchase insurance on state-run exchanges under the law.

Earlier proposals that addressed illegal immigrants were scrapped during the health care debate after they drew controversy.

In New York City public hospitals, an estimated 40 percent of all uninsured patients treated are undocumented, and other hospital systems have an even larger share. Experts estimate that about 6 million of the nation's uninsured are illegal immigrants.

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/health-care-law-ignored-illegal-immigrants-hospitals-may-154832135.html

[RBP]

I am shocked, I say SHOCKED that this was never addressed. :|

[Hal-9000]

suggestion?

Change the law to read - Illegal immigrants will still be treated, but all hospital costs will be sent to hospitals in their native countries :)

watch the problem get changed from the other side of the damned fence for a change :lol:

[RBP]

I am assuming that the mentality in the administration is that after amnesty the issue goes away.

[Richard Cranium]

How aboot we throw the fucking illegals out of the country? Or maybe we should change the definition of illegal to fit the leftist narrative?

[DemonGeminiX]

I say we dig a giant pit somewhere in the midwest, throw all of the illegals in there and let them fight each other to the death with their bare hands. The trick is, they believe that we'll make them citizens if they win. However, whichever single illegal is left standing... we shoot them in the head.

[FBD]

its by design, ffs, and "they didnt even have to do it" - but of course its comprehensive as fuck on a million other things :roll:

[Griffin]

I'm thinking about going on vacation then sneak back into the country as an illegal so I can have more rights.

[deebakes]

I say we dig a giant pit somewhere in the midwest, throw all of the illegals in there and let them fight each other to the death with their bare hands. The trick is, they believe that we'll make them citizens if they win. However, whichever single illegal is left standing... we shoot them in the head.

:nono: NIMBY :hand:

[Acid Trip]

I'm thinking about going on vacation then sneak back into the country as an illegal so I can have more rights.

:lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

I say we dig a giant pit somewhere in the midwest, throw all of the illegals in there and let them fight each other to the death with their bare hands. The trick is, they believe that we'll make them citizens if they win. However, whichever single illegal is left standing... we shoot them in the head.

I'm voting for you for President :thumbsup:

[KevinD]

I say we dig a giant pit somewhere in the midwest, throw all of the illegals in there and let them fight each other to the death with their bare hands. The trick is, they believe that we'll make them citizens if they win. However, whichever single illegal is left standing... we shoot them in the head.

Not a bad Idea. But, just put half of them in the pit. Use the other half to make bricks out of the dug up dirt, and build a wall along the border.

Shovel ready jobs indeed...