Solutions to the Influence of Illegal Immigrants on Health Care Costs
Learning Team A
University of Phoenix
HCS 440
Monday, January 27, 2014

Solutions to the Influence of Illegal immigrants on Health Care 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 immigrants may help reduce the cost of health care costs, but greater forces need to be made in reducing the number of uninsured. It would be nearly