...Illegal Immigrants Pressure on Healthcare Economy Healthcare Reform Project 1 Dr. L March 7, 2016 Illegal Immigrant Pressure on Healthcare Economy Illegal immigrants are having a substantial influence on healthcare reforms and immigration standards. This creates a system that has exponential damage on the healthcare economy. A lot of the states throughout the U.S. are trying to find ways to work around this because of the economic damage that it’s causing for healthcare organizations. President Obama has met with a lot of different immigrant groups and activists searching for methods to find a middle ground. In the United States immigrants that are undocumented have zero ability to be able to obtain health insurance....
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...Immigration and Healthcare Cost Angela Mporampora Metropolitan State College of Denver Healthcare Finance HCM 4030 Professor kelvin D. Zeller March 25, 2012 Immigration and healthcare cost Abstract. The rise in healthcare cost has been one of the most troubling economic events in recent years. Healthcare cost rises about 7.5 percent every year. The United States is known to be the nation with the highest amount spent on healthcare. Some research links immigrants to the fast paste in healthcare cost increase. Immigration became a top issue after the event of September 11th. Many believes immigration is the root cause of most of the economic problems taking place in the country today, they linked immigration to increase in healthcare cost, increase in crime rate, reason for low productivity, reason for loss of job opportunity for native- born and many more. But on the other hand, are these groups of individuals who believe immigrants are being used as “scapegoats” just because they don’t have a voice or stand in the society. They stressed the believe that even before immigration became a hot topic, the economy already had this problem in place, they denoted most research findings stating data were manipulated to support their mission; for immigrant do not visit medical establishment as often as indigenes and wonder how researchers came to the conclusion that immigrants spiked up healthcare cost. This subject is distinctly two sides and it’s difficult to find...
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...Intersection of Socioeconomic Factors and Immigration Status in Healthcare Accessibility for the Latinx Community in the U.S. Srijan Gattem College of Letters and Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles SOCIOL 185: American Society Dr. Isaac Speer 15 March 2024 The complex cobweb of the American healthcare system is not one that’s easily traversed, and the Latinx community, in particular, occupies a position filled with disparities and barriers that highlight the intersection of socioeconomic factors and immigration status. These barriers dig deep into medical care but also tie into systemic obstacles such as unequal employment levels, linguistic difficulties, and problems regarding legal status. Derose et al. (2007) discuss...
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...Running head: IMMIGRATION 1 Immigration By: Ibrahim Elabani For: Cori Claus Renison University College Writing Skills Level 300 March 2nd, 2015 IMMIGRATION Immigration These days, many individuals who live in developing countries are looking to migrate to developed countries. They would like to ensure a good and safe future not only for themselves, but also for their children. Immigration to developed countries from developing countries is a widespread phenomenon currently to countries such as United States of America, Canada, and Australia. According to Dodamin and LaPorte (2005), “Better standards of living and quality of life, higher salaries, access to advanced technology and more stable political conditions in the developed countries attract talent from less developed areas” (p 487). There are several causes that lead people to leave their lands, such as unstable political issues, poor education systems, and inadequate healthcare systems. 2 Currently, political issues are a major cause of immigration. Many citizens do not have a right of free speech in their countries; for instance, Libya was controlled by a dictatorship that ruled the country for forty-two years, there were limited human rights for Libyan citizens who did not have any freedom of speech during the Gaddafi regime. In 2011 a Libyan Revolution and Civil War took place that lead to the overthrow of the previous dictatorship regime but still did not result in freedom of speech; hence, many Libyan...
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...Americans can agree that our immigration system is definitely broken. The problem is that we cannot agree on how this system should be fixed. On April 23, 2010, the Governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, decided that she would attempt a solution to the problem. She signed into law one of the nation’s toughest bills focused on illegal immigration in her state. This law re-ignited the immigration debate all across the United States and brought out many protestors from both sides. Some of the issues at hand are amnesty, healthcare costs, and the increasing crime that illegal immigrants bring into our country. To begin with, does amnesty encourage illegal immigration? Secondly, what does it do to our already fragile health care system? Thirdly, what kinds of crimes are being committed by some illegal immigrants? In my opinion we need to do whatever we can to secure our borders and only allow those who come in legally into our country. Amnesty, in the case of illegal immigrants, is to grant legal status to those who have entered our country illegally. It forgives the fact that they have entered the country illegally, and forgives other illegal acts such as driving and working using false documents. In 1986 under President Ronald Reagan, our country granted what was supposed to be a “one time only” amnesty for approximately 2.7 million illegal aliens. At that time, Congress also enacted a new set of laws that were aimed at eradicating illegal immigration. What were the results of...
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...Costs The problem of illegal immigration is current and has been around for decades. With over 11 million immigrants there has not been a successful action on how to prevent this from happening; the United States should consider solutions to this economic issue. According to Sy Mukherjee studies have shown that the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants cost federal and state governments 10.7 billion a year in health care expenditures. We have all been witnesses to hospitals and medical facilities struggling with the rising cost of providing care to the uninsured population. Hospitals and health care facilities are struggling with massive costs of uncompensated medical services for uninsured people, by federal law they cannot be turned away for the lack of insurance or the ability to pay. Unfortunately these costs are only estimates because health care facilities do not ask for proof of citizenship before providing care. The immigrants are overwhelming healthcare in this economy. Due to billions of tax payer funded dollars they have cost us, a dozen of hospitals in the south-western states have been affected by this. They either go bankrupt or close down. According to CAIR (an organization) ‘because of the federally-mandated programs requiring free emergency room services to illegal aliens. Taxpayers pay half-a-billion dollars per year.’ One of CAIR solutions’ is to stabilize population through reduction of immigration. So, monitoring the arrival of illegal...
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...of Management Executive Summary Our company functions as a Human Resources Management Consultancy firm providing specialty human resource services and business immigration to small and midsize business. Professional recruitment services are offered to healthcare and legal professionals. We represent the interests of both healthcare and legal professionals and the facilities that employ them -- matching professionals with their most desirable job openings while supporting employers in their search for skilled, experienced talent in those same professions. Victus HR Solutions is a human resource (HR) consulting company Victus has expertise in a wide range of HR areas and is targeting the emerging company market. Victus HR Solutions will offer this market the ability to compensate it with stock options from their company in lieu of only cash. This will be especially appealing to start-up companies that find capital scarce. Omolola Adekeye, the founder and owner will be leveraging her past and current personal/professional relationships to generate business for Victus HR Solutions. The leveraging of these relationships will be especially fruitful since a large degree of business for emerging companies is based on networking. Omolola has a large number of relationships to utilize having spent over as immigration professional. She also has the opportunity of providing legal expertise which helps in bring clarity to the legal intricacies involved in Human Resource Management...
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...Illegal Immigration Policy Reform Matthew Benham 02/29/2012 ITT Technical Institute Composition 1 Abstract This paper addresses the number of illegal aliens in the U.S., where they are coming from now and where they were coming from in the past. It shows the detrimental effects these numbers have on our healthcare and education systems. It also shows some of the estimated amounts it costs federal, state and local governments to provide services to illegal immigrants, and how the federal government has tied the hands of healthcare and education providers. It demonstrates that the influx of funds from tax revenue does not cover the cost of the services utilized. The final problem is not with the immigrants themselves but the laws controlling who can and cannot get into the country. The United States has always been a country where any individual can create a better life for him or herself. Migrants from the world over have come here to start again and provide their children with the opportunities they never had. Unfortunately, the requirements to legally come to the United States are very stringent and difficult to navigate, thus many people choose to come here illegally. Illegal immigration has numerous detrimental effects on our economy; reducing wages, burdening our jails, depleting social services, and the most heavily burdened resources: healthcare and education. We need to reform the laws surrounding immigration to deal with this growing problem. The first...
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... SOC/315 Media Reaction The illegal immigration is the act of violating American immigration policies and laws by entering or remaining in the country without receiving authorization from the federal government. We have seen that immigration is a big issue here in the United States was as before it wasn’t an issue. The origin of illegal immigration was in the late nineteenth century. ❖ 1875 the federal law passed that no convicts and prostitutes are to enter the United States. ❖ 1882 President Chester Arthur allowed almost no Chinese immigrants in the United States. ❖ 1892 Ellis Island in New York was a federal immigration station that ended in 1954 in processing over 12 million legal immigrants that was to prove their identities. ❖ 1921 Congress passed a Quota law that only 357,000 immigrants a year are to enter the United States. By 1929 it was reduced to 157,000. ❖ In 2007 Edward Kennedy held a firm hold on the immigration reform that his supported while others tried to delay by hammering out more of the details on the bill. Edward Kennedy was one of the architects of the Immigration and Nationality Act in 1965. He was the United States Senators of Massachusetts and served almost 47 years and was known as one of his major players on the immigration reform. And what the immigration reform does is that it supports or not supports the primary numbers of immigrants are in the United...
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...Immigration is one of the biggest issues in the current presidential race. Although it is the hot topic, immigration is not new. Immigration reached its crowning from 1880 -1920 in the United States when Irish and German immigrants came over by the thousands. Many immigrants came here by choice. Many more people would come from Southern and Eastern Europe and Asia, not to mention all of the African American slaves that were brought here by force implanting more diversity in America (UShistoy.org, 2014). All the while the Statue of Liberty stood tall representing freedom and democracy welcomed immigrants as they arrive to Ellis Island in hopes of achieving the American Dream. Currently immigration is major issue now as it was back then. Education, incarceration, and healthcare are three major social issues that immigration is affecting our country. “The American Dream” that’s what most immigrants that travel to the United States with idea that anyone can attain success no matter their circumstances. Providing healthcare for everyone is daunting task. Great attempts are being made, in March 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The purpose of Obamacare is to increase the quality and provide more Americans access to affordable healthcare. Businesses can also obtain insurance for their employees. While running for president in the general election this topic was the foundation of his campaign. What President Obama accomplished...
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...2013 America’s immigration dilemma Illegal immigration has always been at the forefront when it comes to the domestic policy issues that this country faces and it has divided the nation from deep patriotic Americans to those that have emigrated to the U.S and call it home; all the way to the halls of Capitol Hill along the political lines. The question that is on everyone’s mind is what to do with the millions of undocumented immigrants already settled here for years, mass deportation that would result in breaking up families or do we grant them amnesty and a path to legalization? Many presidents have come along and were not able to bring the lawmakers to the table and draft up a comprehensive immigration reform bill, a bill that would fix the broken immigration system, secure the borders to keep criminals and drugs out of the country and to help all the undocumented immigrants come out of the shadows towards legalization and be able to pay taxes and work and contribute to the economy. Many in Capitol Hill say they do not support any bill that does not address securing the borders first as a priority before any path to legalization that some equate to amnesty. The U.S is a country of immigrants many people say yet its current immigration system is broken and it is nowhere near to being fixed, the state of Arizona has taken it upon itself and moved ahead of the federal government and passed what is called an extremely strict and very controversial immigration law that has some...
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...government-run healthcare, and inhumane treatment towards immigration; all pertaining to people's concern for their rights along with security, the slogan "Bernie's got the RIGHT plans," will ensure Americans that my candidate allow their voices to be heard, therefore enhancing his chances of winning the presidential election. In order for Bernie to gain support from voters, he will need to key in on the issues that concern a majority of the nation. Regarding the economy, my candidate should primarily focus on the 52% of Americans believing the government should redistribute wealth by placing heavy taxes on the rich. (Gallup, 2015) According to poll results, Bernie Sanders also needs to continue his concentration on income inequality. A majority of the people believe that the rich should be taxed heavier therefore, his persistent emphasis on this issue will increase the voter turnout and trust because people will know he is actively listening to them. My candidate’s explicit efforts to hear what the people have to say will inherently adhere to their right of freedom of speech. Furthermore, the people have communicated concerns over the healthcare system. For instance, 55% of Americans prefer a healthcare system based mostly on private health insurance over government-run. (Gallup, 2015) This standpoint stems from the negative framing of “Obamacare” portrayed in the news media. To re-inform voters, my candidate needs to prove the advantages of the current Affordable Healthcare project...
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...Solutions to Illegal Immigrants Impact on Health Care Solutions to Illegal Immigrants Impact on Health Care The effect of immigration on health is controversial. “In recent history, large influxes of immigrants have not resulted from social benefits provided by the United States government. Rather, immigration increases are far more impacted by changes in immigration policy or by political conflict or natural disaster in the immigrants’ home countries. And the availability of direct economic incentives, jobs, prospects, higher wages, and the ability to send money back home, are more than enough to continue incentivizing immigration to the United States regardless of the status of health insurance” (Garg, 2010, p. 1025). Illegal immigrants do not have health insurance coverage; their primary resource for health care is by using emergency room services. Illegal immigrants often use emergency services because of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986. This act commands hospitals that offer emergency services to exclude certain ones, have to provide care to anyone needing emergency health care regardless of legal status or ability to pay. Undocumented immigrants are overrunning medical institutions with their inability to pay. Uncompensated care threatens the financial viability of a unit’s ability to provide care to other patients. Illegal immigrants are a burden to the United States health care economics. Is it an ethical and moral responsibility for...
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...Colton Dahlem Professor Jordan English 110/1522 December 5, 2012 Rough Draft Legal is the New Illegal What do you think of when you read ‘Immigration’? My thought of the definition of immigration is that people of other countries wanting a better life for themselves and/or their family and they think they can find that certain life in the United States. All they have to do is fill out paper work and pay fees that they can later pay off because they will have jobs because they became a US citizen. Some immigrants do not quite understand that concept and that is where we get the problem of illegal immigration. It is great that they want better lives but when they do it illegally is where they literally cross the line. Illegal immigration comes with certain causes, problems, and solutions. It is not easy to determine that causes of illegal immigration but according to the article “Illegal Immigration”, there are two main factors that make immigrants have the desire to join the United States. The first major factor is the “push” factor, which involves the pressures encouraging emigration in countries of origin. There are also four sub-factors that give those immigrants the actual push. The first is the professional factor that deals with jobs, money, and certain opportunities that the United States offer that their home does not. Second is the political factor, which is their opinion on our government vs. their government. The security factor is the third, which involves...
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...As I have read several Christian’s concerns regarding these issues, I can see a wide range of opinions. Here are my personal thoughts on this question. As a Christian, God makes humans in his own image. Immigration is ultimately the individual story about separate people, created in God’s image. Each of these immigrants has value to God. I believe that scripture is our greatest teacher. Jesus healed the sick and cast out demons, showing that God’s power was indeed present. Jesus cared for the crowds, proclaiming the kingdom and healing the sick, because “he had compassion for them” (Matt 9:35-36; 14:14). His empathy for people in need led Jesus to minister, not just to souls, but also to...
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