15% of illegals leave the U.S. for lack of access to health services.


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15 percent of undocumented immigrants –930 thousand– return to Mexico to receive medical attention because in the United States the businesses where they work at do not give them health care, reported Steven P. Wallace, director of the Center of Investigation of the Politics of Health (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California.

In an interview with this newspaper, the also deputy director of the University of California detailed that as opposed to Mexico, in the United States the employees should buy a medical insurance because only 25 percent of industries gives them this benefit.

The United States has the most expensive health care system in the world, he said, therefore medical insurance can cost $200 dollars monthly, and only covers the primary attention, oriented to curative and preventive services.

Data of the Center for Investigation of Health Policy indicated that 64.4 percent of Mexicans immigrants who are less than 10 years old doe not have access to health care services in the United States; whose who are over this age the percentage is of 42.8%; and in the case of those born in the United States it is 23 percent.