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AZ Court Orders Unlimited
Medical Care For Illegals
By Jon Dougherty
� 2003 WorldNetDaily.com
8-28-03
The Arizona Supreme Court has rejected a plea by the state's Medicaid provider to limit medical coverage for illegal immigrants to emergency room and acute care.
The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS, manager of the state's Medicaid program, is obligated to provide care to illegals beyond emergency room and other acute care wards, justices ruled unanimously Thursday.
According to Capitol Media Services and the Arizona Daily Star, AHCCCS - which currently pays $75 million to $80 million a year in emergency care for illegals - had refused to reimburse hospitals for services it said were not covered. About one-third of that amount is covered by state taxpayers; the federal government covers the rest.
Critics of providing unlimited medical care to illegals argue many of them use emergency departments as clinics, a practice that not only can delay care for others but, since E.R. care is more expensive, can also raise the overall costs of operating a hospital. This is especially true in areas suffering from high immigration.
As WorldNetDaily reported, the cost of providing medical care to illegals in and around Los Angeles is rising so fast that many hospitals have cut services or closed emergency departments.
According to Project USA, an immigration reform group, the problem is "epidemic" throughout California. The group adds the problem is compounded because fewer taxes are being paid to support care for illegals.
"Since employers usually pay illegal aliens 'off the books,' neither the employer nor the workers pay payroll taxes," the group says.
Regarding health care, former immigration Lawyer Matt Hayes said "it is amazing that America is willing to provide free medical treatment to people who are not citizens - and even illegal aliens - while the home countries of most all of those people will not do so."
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., says the cost to the entire nation is in the billions.
"According to one estimate, the cost of providing federally-mandated health care to illegal immigrants is between $1.5 billion and $2
billion annually," he said in a Jan. 11, 2002 statement.
CRIMINAL ALIEN COSTS
Claims by state and local authorities requesting compensation from the federal government in FY'99 for incarceration expenses of illegal aliens amounted to about $1.5 billion for 25.4 million days (the equivalent of 69,500 years) of detention. Under the federal State Criminal Alien Assistance Program (SCAAP), the states received only 39 percent of their expenses ($572,734,294). This left the states and local jurisdictions with uncompensated outlays of nearly $911 million. The SCAAP program began in 1994 and compensates the states and local jurisdictions only for incarceration of "undocumented," i.e. illegal, aliens who are serving time for a felony conviction or at least two misdemeanors.
In FY'00 state and local jurisdictions received $569 million in SCAAP payments. SCAAP awards in FY'01 and FY'02, respectively, were $535 million and $543 million. Although the Department of Justice has ceased releasing data on the expense claims of the local jurisdictions, the uncovered costs of incarceration of illegal aliens have no doubt increased significantly from the more than $900 million shortfall in FY'99.
Originally posted by worldwatcher
What do you people think of Bush's new plan to let illegal immigrants get legal status after working here for 3 years?
I don't like this plan, I think it will keep the minimum wage down and keep unemployment rates high.
The whole thing just don't seem right.
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Anyone who enters the United States ILLEGALLY should be deported. I don't give a shyte where they come from. This is an issue of national security. There's no other way to see it. ILLEGAL means CRIME! Are you FOR CRIMINALITY or AGAINST it?
On top of all the other challenges facing the American educational system, massive illegal immigration is costing the nation�s schools $7.4 billion annually and has added 1.1 million students to the country�s overcrowded classrooms, finds Breaking the Piggy Bank, a new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform. And those figures do not even take into account the impact of untold numbers of U.S.-born children of illegal aliens who must also be educated in school systems that, in many cases, can�t afford enough books or even to replace crumbling plaster in classrooms.
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Originally posted by baked
Here art the stats to the edu system:
Originally posted by McGotti
Originally posted by EastCoastKid
Anyone who enters the United States ILLEGALLY should be deported. I don't give a shyte where they come from. This is an issue of national security. There's no other way to see it. ILLEGAL means CRIME! Are you FOR CRIMINALITY or AGAINST it?
oh come on eastcoastkid..i expected a little bit of compasion from you of all people but of coarse not...
I do have compassion. But I also have commons sense and a burning desire to make my nation as safe as possible.
I am against stupid laws that turn innocent people into criminals!!!
If you enter any country in the world illegally you will be treated as a criminal. The same applies here. If the INS had been doing its job, we would not have this terrible problem. I say fire the basTurds! Replace them with people who will DO THEIR JOBS according to the laws. If you don't the laws, then you as a citizen have every right to work to change those laws. Until then, though, it is a crime to enter the US illegally, be it the Mexican border, the Florida coast or Canadian border.
like our absurb drug laws...i am totaly against them...and our new "patriot act"...look at all the people that are considered crimanals under the speach contained within the act..its a #ing joke...
Of course the drug laws are stoopid and the Patriot Acts completely destroy our constitution. My suggestion is to throw out 99% of our elected officials. Put the real people into the house and Senate. The majority of our current leaders are bought-off and bribed cowards.
"this is a matter of national sucurity"..oh great your turning into one of those cowards that are afraid of your own shadow..watch out..osama comin to get you with his illegal mexican buddies!!! where the g-man when you need them!!
I've been advocating this position since day one of the drawdown (1991). And when I lived in Arizona (Tucson and Phoenix mainly) my belief on this, was completely re-enforced. It has nothing to do with my 'being afraid.' It's common sense and do-able. Unfortunately, our leaders seem to display a sickening loyalty to anything other than our nation's safety and well-being. We are being flooded with a third-world danger from within. I'd think long and hard about that, if you love America.
And once again, I have no problem with any LEGAL immigrant. The diversity has made this country great. ILLEGALS are killing that.
[Edited on 8-1-2004 by McGotti]
Originally posted by baked
Originally posted by baked
Here art the stats to the edu system:
Is that enough?
Originally posted by McGotti
wait i just figured out the answer..stop calling them illegal so the kids are not put into a minority therefore easily dicriminated against and take back the billions wasted on iraqhere he goes about iraq again and put that towards the education system..there..i fixed the problem....hell from what i remember..and i went to alot better schools than the ones that were discribed in your article[no school i have attended has ever been as bad as the one discribe in the article you posted...and ive been to at least 10- 12 schools ranging from coast to coast..north to south[father was air force]I have, and so have others. So, since you never went to one does not mean they don't exist.
most citizen legal children dont take advantage of the edu. system anyway....skipping school and drop outs a everywhere...so bad most schools stop recording the drop outs...Now I would like to see your stats on this. Where is the numbers to back up this insane claim?
Wait heres another idea....repeal the insane drug laws and then you can use the money from the millions of prisoners in there because of drugs and you will have plenty of money to improve the schools..wit some money left over... Nice try....you are not going to get me on your side with the drug thing. Completly different story. you are just running one thing in to another in to another in to another.
Originally posted by baked
Originally posted by McGotti
wait i just figured out the answer..stop calling them illegal so the kids are not put into a minority therefore easily dicriminated against and take back the billions wasted on iraqhere he goes about iraq again and put that towards the education system..there..i fixed the problem....hell from what i remember..and i went to alot better schools than the ones that were discribed in your article[no school i have attended has ever been as bad as the one discribe in the article you posted...and ive been to at least 10- 12 schools ranging from coast to coast..north to south[father was air force]I have, and so have others. So, since you never went to one does not mean they don't exist.
most citizen legal children dont take advantage of the edu. system anyway....skipping school and drop outs a everywhere...so bad most schools stop recording the drop outs...Now I would like to see your stats on this. Where is the numbers to back up this insane claim?
Wait heres another idea....repeal the insane drug laws and then you can use the money from the millions of prisoners in there because of drugs and you will have plenty of money to improve the schools..wit some money left over... Nice try....you are not going to get me on your side with the drug thing. Completly different story. you are just running one thing in to another in to another in to another.