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How does immigration affect medical care in the US?
Quick question: How does immigration affect medical care in the US? Legal immigration. I need answers with stuff related to cultural difference between the patient and doctor and other stuff like that. Thanks.
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- Many border hospitals have had to close their emergency rooms. They were over run with illegals and could not meet the financial burden. Over 1 million babies were born in US hospitals last year to illegals.
- legal immigrants are able to access medical care using their funds. If they qualify as low income they have accesss to various programs,repayment plans etc. ---Illegals however are responsible for the closure of many hospitals. Even non-profit hospitals have to have state/fed support to pay their employees, maintain their facility,pay utilities etc. Most other hospitals are struggling as their emergency rooms are overrun,overused by illegals who often simply want no cost medical care. Ambulance companies are also struggling--many illegals call an ambulance because they believe that they will get served faster. Hospitals are stuck with the bill and often cant even find the patient due to false Id's non existent addresses, etc. Many illegals sneak into the Us simply to get medical treatment or deliver a baby.
- That depends on culture and age. A lot of older people from eastern Europe, and Asia, just don't want to bother the important doctor with the complaints of a humble peasant. But a lot of the impact both with legal and illegals as well as Americans is lack of health insurance which forces them to seekl the most expensive treatment which happens to be the only care available: Emergency room trauma staff. which are specifically trained for emergency medicine, kinda like MASH surgeons. Keep em alive long enough to get real help.
- It makes health care more expensive for Americans. As far as patient doctor cultural differences go, it makes a docotors job very hard when he doesn't understand an illegal patient, but any job can be hard when you can't communicate with each other.
- well, the language barrier is a problem. i do not understand chinese, russian, etc. some cultures do not allow a woman to talk to a male stranger, they have to talk through the dominant male, thereby not all info is given. some cultures it is taboo for a non-family male to touch a female. and, depending on where they are from, medical records, diagnosis, immune shots, and medicines are slim to none. health care in other countries is like non-existent, so people who come here have advanced cases and require more treatment than others. - more medication, treatment, and maybe other, more aggressive treatments that cost all of us more in the end. also, they are given medical care no matter if they can pay or not, and are given medicare and/or medicaid even though they have not paid into the system. this too costs us in the end
