American citizens should be leaders’ main priority

American citizens should be leaders’ main priority
By YEH LING-LING - IR Your Turn - 06/22/09


Health care costs in the U.S. have skyrocketed for many reasons. However, Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee leading the charge for health care reform, should warn Congress that the U.S. cannot achieve fiscally responsible health care reform without also substantially reducing immigration although many immigrants are fine individuals.

According to the March 2007 Current Population Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, about one-third of all foreign-born lack health insurance; immigrants and their U.S.-born children under 18 accounted for nearly one third of all people in the U.S. without health insurance and more than 70 percent of the growth of the uninsured population in the U.S.

Meanwhile, every year one million legal immigrants, at least half a million illegal migrants, plus hundreds of thousands of “guest workersâ€

"[i]Meanwhile, every year one million legal immigrants, at least half a million illegal migrants, plus hundreds of thousands of “guest workersâ€