Healthcare Affected by Migrant Crisis
From the Mexican border in Arizona and Texas through Denver to New York, hospitals are being overrun by illegal aliens. Many are turning away patients, including US citizens. The number of beds reserved for uninsured patients has been increased, all of which is putting enormous financial strain on these hospitals and creating risk for their U.S. citizen and Green Card holder clients, who are turned away or referred to other hospitals.
Law
Under US law, hospital emergency rooms are required to treat everyone who shows up regardless of ability to pay. Sanctuary cities and counties have attracted migrants and are the scenes of much of the problem. For example, according to MSN news, Denver Colorado’s public health clinics and hospitals are facing potential bankruptcy. The public hospital system in Denver, Colorado, is facing financial pressures and has turned away patients "due to a massive influx of illegal immigrants into that community and the resulting increase in hospital visits and services provided to those individuals."
The situation in California is a complete mystery to me. There have been about 20,000 Chinese men of military age who have entered the San Diego center according to Netshark. Within days they have been seen taking target practice with weapons including both handguns and rifles. China is, according to the Biden Administration, the number one enemy of the U.S. Importing a small army of our enemies is treason. Fortunately, they won’t be needing much healthcare – unlike the pregnant illegal migrants who comprise 30% of deliveries in California.
Illegal aliens awaiting their transport to processing center.
Arizona and Texas
The situation in Arizona and Texas is horrid. In Eagle Pass, Texas, the single hospital in a town of 28,000 is swamped by the added burden of 5,200 migrants, held in a nearby shelter, currently at 256% of capacity. According to the NY Post, Migrant facilities along the US border are filled over capacity with 18,500 people in custody at four of the most overrun border crossings in Texas and Arizona.
Migrant patients are overwhelming Yuma, Arizona’s sole hospital, straining medical resources and placing the facility on the brink of collapse without sufficient funding to accommodate the influx of people. Thus far the hospital has spent $20M it does not have providing free healthcare for foreigners. There is no money on the horizon coming from the state or federal government.
Filled Over Capacity
According to the NY Post, Migrant facilities along the US border are filled over capacity with 18,500 people in custody at four of the most overrun border crossings in Texas and Arizona. Overnight thousands more migrants poured over the border, cutting down sections of border barrier near Lukeville, Arizona, and wading across the Rio Grande
New York City
NYC illegal aliens will receive state-funded healthcare due to a law passed by the New York legislature’s Democrats – after the Federal Government agreed to provide the money to support this. It’s easy to be generous with OPM (Other Peoples’ Money). I harken back to UK PM Thatcher who said, “Socialists do just fine until they run out of other people’s money to spend.”
A spokesperson for Public Health Solutions, which operates New York state’s largest program for Women, Infant and Children nutrition, said it has had a 30% increase in enrollment due to the large number of newly arrived migrants, with lines out the door on some days at its Queens location.
Bill, are you saying that not everybody in the world can be rich at the same time? You probably wear a MAGA cap. Stop worrying. The government will pay all the bills. The government has tons of money. Ask any member of Congress.
Meanwhile in Canada, although hospitals are publicly funded and cannot go bankrupt, staff are even more burned out, and waiting times in the emergency room or for specialists, which were bad enough 5 years ago, are completely unacceptable now. All the COVID money did not result in more hospitals, and all the immigrants is not resulting in more doctors.