Colorado - Illegal Immigrants no longer eligble for state health care

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Effective Aug. 1, state services, including the state health plans and welfare, will no longer be given to illegal immigrants in Colorado. This law, enacted by Gov. Bill Owens, in considered the 'toughest in the nation' and other states are expected to follow suit.

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Specializes in Critical Care.
No offense is intended, but I wholly agree with this new law. I am from California, a state that has been financially devastated by providing costly services such as healthcare, education, and social programs to illegal immigrants.

I would be wholly in favor of this law, if it were the policy of the United States to actively prevent and interdict illegal aliens. And I would be wholly in favor of that, as well.

But, if we are purposely turning a blind eye to these people coming, we bear some responsibility for them while they are here. Turning a blind eye again is just immoral.

~faith,

Timothy.

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Wow... who would have thought I would agree with Timothy?;)

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Just a note...my friend's father is an emergency room physician in Mexico. They do not treat Americans with no insurance (they get lots of vacationers there)..even on an emergency basis. Cash only.

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Emergently, everyone is going to be treated...even if only to the point that life threats are corrected. But...illegal imigrants in Colorado are not going to get their tonsils out...they are not going to get free antibiotics or allergy meds or B/P meds or statins. They are going to have to pay for their insulin. They are not going to get free school physicals or sports physicals. They are going to have to pay for things that are not taken care of in the ER...

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Specializes in cardiac, med-surg, some critical care.
Just a note...my friend's father is an emergency room physician in Mexico. They do not treat Americans with no insurance (they get lots of vacationers there)..even on an emergency basis. Cash only.

I say let the USA do the same thing. America should not treat Mexicans with no insurance.....even on an emergency basis.....cash only. :caduceus:

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Great, now we wanna be just like Mexico:(.

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Mexico might just be on to something. I would rather it be like mexico in the U.S. than like it is here in Canada.

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Specializes in Not specified.

I am the director of an Dementia unit and we were suckered into accepting a patient who ended up being illegal and ineligible for medicaid. So now we are stuck with this patient, who currently owes the facility over $100,000, absolutely no family involvement because they are afraid of being deported. To me, that $100,000 represents the salaries of at least 4 more full time CNAs, which I feel my residents desparately deserve. This illegal resident is taking away a valuable medicaid bed to a deserving citizen!

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But if you leave the door to your wedding wide open, AND make no real attempt to distinguish between your wedding guests and the crashers, isn't this a problem of your OWN making? Indeed, if you leave the door open BECAUSE you were hoping for uninvited guests to fill out the 'party' (for whatever reason, maybe you were just hoping the wallflowers would get invited to dance), isn't that DOUBLY your fault that indeed, they come in to do just that?

~faith,

Timothy.

yes we opened our doors...

but where does personal responsibility come in?

In "Cinderella Man" Braddock returned the money the state gave him, after he became a success...My point is, is it okay to keep taking from the taxpayers, and sending the cash money you earn (possibly under the table) back home?

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Specializes in ICU, ER, HH, NICU, now FNP.
yes we opened our doors...

but where does personal responsibility come in?

In "Cinderella Man" Braddock returned the money the state gave him, after he became a success...My point is, is it okay to keep taking from the taxpayers, and sending the cash money you earn (possibly under the table) back home?

No - however -

Since we enable them to do just that, then we have created the situation to alllow it to occur. We are reaping what policy has sowed. We have created an antire population of dependant people and told them it's ok - heck we have even ENCOURAGED it!

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Specializes in Long Term Care.

I think that until we as a nation decide what is good for us and make it impossible for special intrest groups to influence the decisions made by politicians, there is not going to be a fair or equitable resolution to this arguement.

How much money do we send over seas everyday?

When will Social Security become insolvent because of it?

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Specializes in Peds.
Just a note...my friend's father is an emergency room physician in Mexico. They do not treat Americans with no insurance (they get lots of vacationers there)..even on an emergency basis. Cash only.

How very true..... we were talking to a friend of ours the other day who is getting ready to go to Mexico. Someone she knew had gotten hurt while doing some kind of water sport while he and his wife were in Mexico and needed emergency treatment. The hospital required a $10,000 CASH payment up front before they would treat him!!!!!

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