Thread: CA-Illegal immigrants don’t overuse emergency room

Illegal immigrants don’t overuse emergency room; Medi-cal patients do
August 21st, 2008, 6:00 am · Post a Comment · posted by Erin Carlyle
Immigrants — particularly those here illegally — are often blamed for overcrowding hospital emergency rooms and driving up the cost of health care for citizens.

But a new report from the Public Policy Institute of California says that foreign-born residents who are not U.S. citizens are among the least likely to use emergency rooms, at least for those health issues that could be treated in a clinic.

More specifically, immigrant Hispanics and Asians use emergency departments less than U.S.-born whites, the report found. Noncitizen immigrants are among the least likely to report a recent emergency department visit, according to the study.

The most likely people to use emergency rooms are Medi-Cal patients, according to the report.

Here are the major findings of the new PPIC report:

The uninsured are nearly twice as likely to visit the emergency department as the privately insured but far less likely than Medi-Cal or Medicare patients.
Children under 18 account for a quarter of emergency department visits.
Infants have the highest proportion – nearly seven in 10 – of potentially avoidable emergency department visits.
Medicare patients are frequent emergency room visitors, but fewer than three in 10 visits by patients over 65 were considered avoidable.
The three counties with the highest per-capita emergency department visit rate are in the Central Valley: Stanislaus, Fresno, and San Joaquin.
However, the report does not address the fact that people in California illegally are eligible for Medi-Cal, as we’ve reported before.

As of February 2007, 12 percent of the state’s 6.6 million Medi-Cal eligible patients were considered illegal immigrants. Medi-Cal officials count as illegal immigrants people who can provide neither a Social Security number nor immigration papers.

The study was funded by the California Program on Access to Care, a University of California research program created at the behest of the California legislature 10 years ago. The Public Policy Institute of California is nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that does not take stances on poltical issues.

http://immigration.freedomblogging.com/ ... tients-do/

SINCE - WHEN! TODAY?

EVERY TIME I GO THERE, ONE IS IN THE ER; WHOLE FAMILY

As of February 2007, 12 percent of the state’s 6.6 million Medi-Cal eligible patients were considered illegal immigrants. Medi-Cal officials count as illegal immigrants people who can provide neither a Social Security number nor immigration papers.

Great test! Simply ask them to repeat their SSN!

Originally Posted by FedUpinFarmersBranch

Illegal immigrants don’t overuse emergency room; Medi-cal patients do
August 21st, 2008, 6:00 am · Post a Comment · posted by Erin Carlyle
Immigrants — particularly those here illegally — are often blamed for overcrowding hospital emergency rooms and driving up the cost of health care for citizens.

But a new report from the Public Policy Institute of California says that foreign-born residents who are not U.S. citizens are among the least likely to use emergency rooms, at least for those health issues that could be treated in a clinic.

The Public Policy Institute of California is a rabid Open Borders "think tank".

See:

http://www.ppic.org/main/president.asp

Immigrant Pathways to Legal Permanent Residence: Now and Under a Merit-Based System

"The proposed legislation would replace the current system -- which gives priority to applicants based on family reunification and employment -- with a system that places greater emphasis on employment and skills."

CALIFORNIANS AGREE THAT MAJOR CHANGES IN IMMIGRATION POLICY ARE NEEDED

Most California adults (73%) surveyed in PPIC’s Statewide Survey say that major changes to immigration policy are needed (as opposed to minor changes or no changes)."

Crime, Corrections, and California: What Does Immigration Have to Do with It?

"Immigrants are far less likely than the average U.S. native to commit crime in California, according to this issue of California Counts. For example, among men ages 18-40 – the age group most likely to commit crime – the U.S.-born are 10 times more likely than the foreign-born to be in jail or prison. Even among noncitizen men from Mexico ages 18-40 – a group disproportionately likely to have entered the United States illegally – the authors find very low rates of institutionalization. Such findings suggest that longstanding fears of immigration as a threat to public safety are unjustified."

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib ... logue.html

Border dialogue turns into forum on illegals, fence

By Sandra Dibble
STAFF WRITER

March 16, 2006

A meeting of civic, business and government leaders from both sides of the border yesterday was intended to foster economic integration of San Diego County and Baja California. But participants in the Forum Fronterizo soon found themselves addressing a very different topic: illegal immigration and the proposal for a new border fence.

[b]“Building a wall is an anachronism,â€

Tell that to the 85 CA Hospitals that went under in the last 20 years , mainly because of the unreimbursed treatment of illegals

Public Policy Institute of California

Gee...I wonder what their agenda might be!

Originally Posted by Buzzm1

Tell that to the 85 CA Hospitals that went under in the last 20 years , mainly because of the unreimbursed treatment of illegals

Took the words right out of my mouth Buzz!

[quote]“San Diego and Baja California have the potential to become a global showcase for how two nations can collaborate,â€

Children under 18 account for a quarter of emergency department visits.
Infants have the highest proportion – nearly seven in 10 – of potentially avoidable emergency department visits.
Medicare patients are frequent emergency room visitors, but fewer than three in 10 visits by patients over 65 were considered avoidable.
The three counties with the highest per-capita emergency department visit rate are in the Central Valley: Stanislaus, Fresno, and San Joaquin.
However, the report does not address the fact that people in California illegally are eligible for Medi-Cal, as we’ve reported before.

That shows that illegal aliens DO use most of the emergency care. Alot of kids under 18, and 7 of 10 infants use the emergency rooms at hospitals. And illegal aliens are eligible for Medi-Cal which uses emergency rooms alot.

Who is the Public Policy Institute of California? They dont seem to know what they are talking about.

As someone who worked in LA County hospitals for over 10 years, I can say without a doubt that the author of this article is either a paid schill of the RNC or a crackhead.

Originally Posted by lateone

As someone who worked in LA County hospitals for over 10 years, I can say without a doubt that the author of this article is either a paid schill of the RNC or a crackhead.

LOL! Would not doubt it for a second!