Democrats were recently attacked for not doing enough to prevent "illegal immigrants" from obtaining health care under the proposals now in Congress. FCAN supports health care for everyone in America, which includes those here without documents. I'll explain our reasons.
First, it is the right thing to do. We believe in taking care of our neighbors and those in need of care. We don't want anyone to suffer, for any reason. In fact, under current law, hospitals and doctors are required to treat everyone. Aside from the morality, I believe this is because we would want to receive the same care if we found ourselves in need.
Secondly, taking care of everyone is more efficient. The changes made to the legislation envision health care providers checking identity papers before providing care. Aside from the obvious difficulty from doing so in an emergency situation, it would mean creating an entirely new bureaucracy to prevent people from obtaining care. Insurance companies would be the clear choice to do the work, considering their experience. National identity cards would be needed to establish identity. This would diminish our freedom, and cause lots of additional expense solely for the purpose of denying health care to people that need it.
Thirdly, the charity care providers would still have to provide care. While the many clinics and hospitals that currently provide care to those without insurance look forward to the end of their missions with the advent of national health care, they might face simply shifting clientèle. That would mean scarce resources put back into health care that might have been devoted to other causes.
Undocumented workers are now paying taxes. Many of these workers use forged social security cards and have payroll taxes deducted from their checks. That means they are paying into Social Security and Medicare. The U.S. Social Security Administration has estimated that undocumented immigrants contribute approximately $8.5 billion in Social Security and Medicare funds each year. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has determined that undocumented immigrants paid almost $50 billion in federal taxes from 1996 to 2003.
FCAN believes immigration problems are complicated and should be addressed, but attacking immigrants and denying them care is not only foolhardy, it is wrong.
3 comments:
What a bunch of baloney. This health care bill ahs nothing to do with improving health care. It is a mechanisim for raising taxes and establishing control. Americans do not want to live in a socialist society!
Is this is JOKE? Someone in this country still believes this garbage? So while illegal immigrants are provided free health care, welfare, free education, I have to pay the bill? Where is the "FREE" in here. No matter how you look at it or turn the words around to sound pretty in your head, its a TAX. A tax on hard working people who follow the rules who have to pay for freeloaders and entitled idiots who think they are too good to work for what they want. You sent this garbage to my email and normally I don't respond to such nonsense but enough is enough. Get a real job.
Actually, even though at first glance it seems contrary to common sense, when you think about it, it does make sense to cover everyone. The money paid into Social Security alone, which they can't receive and goes to everyone else eventually, would compensate.
It's also the humanitarian thing to do. Which of those who disagree would be willing to be the person to deny help to someone in an emergency room the care they need? Whose willing to cast the first stone?
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