...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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...Rights of undocumented aliens to healthcare Name: Institution: Date: Executive summary According to the US Congress in 2010, President Obama made the PPACA a law but still this act does not include the undocumented aliens in the medical coverage. This report reviews the rights of the undocumented aliens to healthcare and hoe this can be improved. This research discovered that the undocumented aliens have limited access to health care due to lack of identity papers. This is due to the fact that they earn very low income and medical insurance coverage is lower for the undocumented aliens. As a result, they rely on the safety-net medical care providers such as social health centers as this centers continue to provide care for the undocumented aliens. This research also reviews the limitations and problems faced by the undocumented aliens in accessing health care and as a result the ploys they use to access medical care. The findings of this research show that they mostly rely on treating themselves with over counter drugs or in the cases of extremes they use unofficial networks to seek treatment. Also, it is evident that they would do anything to safeguard their cover from being discovered and these results in stress and psychological disorders. Another finding is that despite the healthcare reforms, undocumented aliens still have no rights to access health care compared to the US citizens. This research recommends designing of programs which focus on the issue of undocumented...
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...Time for a Change With over 12 million illegal immigrants in this country, most 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...
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...various occupational and environmental hazards, placing them at an increased risk of morbidity and mortality compared to the general population. Despite living in the richest country in the world, the health status and health needs of migrant farmworkers have not been fully studied. Objective- Conduct a literature review addressing the occupational health hazards, quality and barriers to healthcare access in migrant farmworkers in the United States. Method- An electronic search of PUBMED and other bibliographic databases and hand search of published literature was conducted. Results- Conclusions Introduction: The production of vegetables and fruits in the U.S. relies on hand labor delivered by migrant and seasonal farmworkers. During the past twenty years the U.S. has experienced one of the largest waves of immigration in history. More than three million migrant and seasonal farmworkers are estimated to be present in the U.S. Agriculture is one of the most hazardous fields as farmworkers are...
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...highly against it. Many of the position against immigration is the cost immigrants are in the United States, such as participation in public assistance programs. People pro immigration paint immigrants as hard working people, while people against immigration portrait them as people coming to take as much public assistance as possible, costing millions to tax paying Americans. George J. Borjas, an recognized American economist and professor at the Harvard Kennedy School (Borjas), tried to explain how exposure to disadvantaged backgrounds affects if immigrant children will participate in public assistance programs into adulthood . He used the correlation...
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...Integration to Canadian Society This paper will examine the difficulties immigrants have when they arrive in Canada with respect to assimilation of language, transferability of education in finding a job in Canada and training that exists for the newly landed immigrant. We will also touch the difficulties it poses for Canadian citizens in dealing with this influx of immigrants into our urbanized centers. Anglo Canadians have quickly become a minority and continue to become a shrinking minority. Immigrants arriving to Canada in most cases believe that they have made the right choice to leave their homeland in pursuit of a better life for themselves and their children. After all Canada has a global reputation as being one of the best countries in the world for many reasons. There is free healthcare available and educational opportunities if so desired as well as many provincial social services in place to help new immigrants transition into Canadian society. Some immigrants leave there come country because of instability within their government causing national unrest and dangerous circumstances for ordinary citizens. In other cases immigration can occur simply because they are seeking a better opportunities in life. Up until 1960’s “Canada’s immigration objective was to attract more British and American immigrants, as well as immigrants from the “preferred countries” of central and northern Europe” [4] Canada’s immigration policy after 1960 has historically been very relaxed...
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...llegal immigrants in the United States (US) have long been a topic of debate for policymakers and the public. The rationale about them is that they do not pay taxes; they add to the costs of taxpayers and use up funds in resources meant for assisting citizens and legal immigrants (the legal citizens). Therefore, they are perceived as a threat to the US economy. The true impacts of illegal immigrants on the US economy are discussed by debating over the economic benefits as well as economic costs of these immigrants. The negative impacts, discussed first, presented the decreases in low skilled jobs’ wage rates for legal immigrants and citizens instigated by illegal immigrants, the social services such as educations and healthcare that they utilize and add to taxpayers. Then contrary to the negative impacts, the positive impacts reveal benefits of low production costs, increases in the local market sales, undocumented tax generation, impact on growth and employment brought forth by illegal immigrants. These impacts, both negative and positive, are independently analyzed and weighed against each other. The discussion does show a slight net positive impact on the US economy in contrast to the normal belief about illegal immigrants. There was a time when people came freely and settled within the land, but as societies became more civilized and community laws established, immigration became a point of concern for the advanced societies. They did not just want any person to enter the...
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...Unavailable Healthcare Student’s Name: University Affiliation Unavailable Healthcare Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (2002). Health care costs: Fact sheet. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Retrieved on March 12, 2013, from http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/factsheets/costs/health-care/index.html The United States department of health and human services has an agency that is dedicated to conducting studies on the cost of healthcare to inform lawmakers and citizens alike. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has done extensive studies on particular ways to target the increasing cost of medical care. This is in recognition of the cost as a barrier to the availability of healthcare to the poor. Ayanian, J.Z. & Van der Wees, P.J. (2012). Tackling rising health care costs in Massachusetts. The New England Journal of Medicine, 367, 790-793. Retrieved March 21, 2013, from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1208710. Massachusetts is an example of a state on how to enact healthcare reform. Ayanian and Van der Wees (2012) investigate how Massachusetts has handled the rising cost of healthcare. In 2010, the state attorney general found that there was a great variation in the price of medical care throughout the state (Ayanian & Van der Wees, 2012). The state passed a law whose aim was to control medical care costs; Brill, S. (2013, February 20). Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us. Time. Retrieved Sept 5...
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...Almost 350,000 immigrants sneak into the United States illegally each year. Typically these people immigrate to the United States in hopes of finding employment to support their families. Once here, about 70% of them will obtain employment. The jobs that illegal immigrants occupy are the lower end jobs, which hurt unemployment rates especially for the lower class. Illegal Immigrants costs the United States about 113 billion each year. These costs are spread out over our education system, medical care, judicial system, and more. The information presented in this research paper will address the seriousness of this issue. Illegal immigration has a negative impact on the United States in many ways. Immigrants have entered our country illegally and stolen millions of jobs, crippled a struggling education system, manipulated welfare programs, and drastically raised crime rates. Without immigration reform, the crippling effects of illegal immigrants will break this country. With illegal immigrants willing to work for less pay and in poor work conditions, they negatively impact employment rates. Illegal-immigration has a negative impact on the available jobs for U.S. citizens. People often protest that the illegal immigrants do the jobs that Americans don’t want to do. However, that is not the case. They are able to work for low wages and in poor conditions, where citizens must follow minimum wage and labor laws. The more employers use illegal immigrants for cheap labor...
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...WR122 Dec. 3, 2009 Illegal Immigration An illegal immigrant is an “alien who has entered the United States without government permission or stayed beyond the termination date of a visa” (Hill). Today America can’t even take care of the citizens that it has. By having illegal immigrants that we do not plan for using public services like welfare, food stamps, state medical, school services, social security, and criminal justice services, will directly affect all Americans in this economic crisis. Illegal immigrants also cause other problems like crime, overcrowding, and language disputes. The United States of America needs to stand by laws that are in place for illegal immigration. The United States of America border is about 7,515 miles. “Each year, more than 500 million people cross the borders into the United States, some 330 million of whom are non-citizens. There are 118,129, 875 vehicles that enter the U.S. annually and 22.5 million cargo containers” (U.S Customs and Border Patrol). With this amount of traffic it is very difficult for the border patrol to monitor every mile of border between Canada and Mexico, allowing illegal immigrants into the United States. The senator of Arizona says there are a few issues with securing the border, “Insufficient resources dedicated to border security, coupled with a lack of will to effectively enforce the law” (Kyl). One issue the government of the United States thinks about every day is safety for citizens. We have a system that...
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...The trans community is one of the marginalized communities that are struggling until this day to access healthcare services without fear or discomfort. Using the article “ I Don’t Think This is theoretical; This is Our Lives” I will explore on the role information erasure and how it negatively impact the Trans population lives. More specifically on the lack of information in erasing the trans identity and increasing the stigma associated with them, and how information erasure increases the struggles for trans individual accessing healthcare services. Information erasure includes the lack of knowledge regarding trans people and the assumption that such knowledge does not exist (Bauer et al, 351). The lack of information and research on trans population plays an effective role in shaping...
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...Asian Americans and racism in the USA Name: Institution: Course: Tutor: Date: Abstract Asian Americans are a minority group of both immigrants and person born and raised in the USA. It has been the fastest growing minority group and is considered to be the model minority of the USA due to various factors such as hard work in both academic and employment that successively leads to economic prowess among this minority population (Chou, 2008). The history of the Asian American dates back to the ancient times when they occupied the American land before the European invasion. The tribes that occupied the American land are commonly referred to as the Native Americans. A majority of the Asian American people that are living in the USA are immigrants. Both individuals and the community/communities are faced with various challenges such as adopting the American culture and retaining their root cultures at the same time. However, the major issue of concern is racial segregation they are faced with. Like any other subordinate group in the USA, the Asian American people are not spared off the vice. They experience discrimination emanating from the fact that they are different from other minority groups and as well the whites. They are subjected to discrimination in various fields in which they are engaged such as education, employment, immigration, land acquisition and others (Phan et al. 2009). This forms of discriminations have their impacts on the several life aspects of this minority...
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...Somalia’s unique culture and belief system has a strong influence on the birthing practices of Somali women. These birthing practices vary from typical American birth practices in a variety of ways, including beliefs regarding cesarean sections, preferences for female care providers, issues surrounding infibulation, lack of prenatal care and education, religious influences, and views on pain, among a variety of other issues. It is important for nurses to be aware of cultural differences in order to provide culturally competent care to all women. Somalia is a country located on the horn of Africa. All Somalis share a uniform language, religion, and culture, unlike most parts of Africa. It is common for women to marry at a young age, and the ability to have many children is highly valued. It is estimated that the maternal mortality rate is 1,400 per 100,000 women, one of the highest in the world. Somalia’s lack of medical care during pregnancy and delivery contributes to their high infant and maternal mortality rates. The experience of pregnancy and the labor and delivery process in Somalia differs in many ways from that of women in the United States. It is important that health care providers in the United States are aware of these differences because 32% of the refugees in the U.S. are from Somalia, so it is likely that providers will care for a Somali female at some point in their careers. In Somalia, cesarean sections are rarely discussed and typically not performed (Ameresekere...
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...confused and uncomfortable with the new environment and people. Now imagine how much more amplified this would be for an immigrant family interacting with the US medical and legal system. There are so many new terms, expectations, and relationships that are foreign to people who did not grow up being exposed to these organizations. Yet, they are expected to act in the same way that someone born and raised in the US would and possess the cultural knowledge of these institutions that can function vastly differently than those in the culture they grew up in. U.S. institutions, like the medical, criminal justice, and child welfare system, must use a cultural relativist approach when working with immigrant families “which calls for suspending judgement of other people’s cultural values and practices.avoiding judging one culture by the standards of another culture (Hutchison, 2019, p. 459). As mentioned above, immigrant families may be unaware of the differences between cultural rules and norms when they move to the United States, which can potentially lead to the unintentional breaching of US institutional rules. Expectations and socially acceptable parenting practices are different in the United States versus other countries. Although there are universal rights of children, specific laws and practices depend on culture. It is also important to note that many immigrant families are fearful and distrustful of government control due to historical trauma. Many countries only use the legal...
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...Citizenship Citizenship is not for everyone, especially immigrants. Immigrants come to the U.S., each with a different reason explaining why they must immigrate to America. But if they never planned to stay in America for a long period of time, then they shouldn’t be able to be given the privilege to become an American citizen. This kind of situation is the deciding factor of whether or not they should need citizenship. Therefore, if the person has come from poor demographics and has little government help, citizenship could be of use, but then their citizenship for their native country would have to be revoked. There are many pros and cons to becoming a U.S. citizens, so if the immigrants think that the pros outweigh...
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