Thread: Undocumented Immigrants Could Get Kidney Transplants Under New Bill

Undocumented Immigrants Could Get Kidney Transplants Under New Bill
By Katie Honan |
October 7, 2015

State Sen. Jose Peralta's bill would allow undocumented immigrants to get kidney transplants.View Full CaptionSen. Peralta's Office


JACKSON HEIGHTS — Sen. Jose Peralta introduced a bill in time for a national donor day that would help sick undocumented New Yorkers receive kidney transplants.

Undocumented residents receiving treatment and dialysis are not currently eligible for kidney transplants, even though Medicare funds their treatments.

Illinois is currently the only state that offers kidney transplants to undocumented immigrants through state funding, he said.
“Morally, this is the right thing to do, and financially this is the right thing to do,” Peralta said, citing statistics from the Division of Nephrology of Elmhurst Hospital.

The study from the division found that Medicare typically spends $110,000 on a kidney transplant, but much less annually on the patient if it's successful.

By comparison, they spend an average of $72,000 annually for patients undergoing dialysis, which could last for years.
Peralta's bill was praised by Helen Irving, the president and CEO of LiveOnNY, which organized Tuesday's registry day.
“LiveOnNY commends Peralta’s efforts to advance organ donation and transplantation efforts that address the health needs of all state residents, including equal access to transplant services in order to save more lives,” she said.

At the event, Peralta also registered 25 people as organ donors — which helps boost the possible pool for the life-saving registry.

"When it comes to organ donation, New York is in a state of emergency," he said.

https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/201...under-new-bill

A lot of diabetes patients getting into the US. So then we get stuck with their constant care forever. I don't mind us fixing up some Asian child's cleft palate and then sending them back, but to get stuck with lifetime medical bills and homecare, and Section 8 costs and food stamps, and battered womens shelters and psychological and trauma counseling and school meals and.......

""When it comes to organ donation, New York is in a state of emergency," he said."

Gotta be one of the all-time most idiotic statements, ever. Is he talking about a lack of donors or people who appear out of nowhere and want a donation?

How many real American citizens will die because an illegal alien was given a kidney instead of one of them? Why should any American have to compete with an alien for the limited supply of organs for transplant. This is flat out immoral and viciously callous to American citizens by their own government. And crap like this will get worse and worse until somebody explains it to the politicians in a language they understand. Where are the mass protest, the is the mass civil disobedience? Pray to God we can turn things around before there is violent revolution. Of course I am not advocating violence, just ringing the alarm of danger. How long will it go on before the law abiding, decent, hard working Americans are pushed beyond their ability to remain civil? How long will it be before they can not, will not take it anymore? Then pray that it does not become violent.

I remembered this from 2012. This article is from Bariatric News.
This is going to get expensive ant the existing resources will have to be reallocated. Who will lose?

Mexico faces diabetes epidemic


89,414 people are projected to die from diabetes-related diseases in 2012

38 new diabetes cases are confirmed in Mexico every hour


Monday, November 26, 2012 - 14:32Owen Haskins - Editor in chief, Bariatric News

Mexico is heading towards a public health crisis from diabetes-related disease, according to new research from country’s Health Secretariat.

In 2012, a total of 89,414 people are projected to die from diabetes-related diseases, an increase of 92% from the year 2000. This figure will only increase as a fifth of all Mexican women and more than a quarter of men are at risk of diabetes. Previous estimates have claimed 70,000 Mexicans die each year from diabetes-related diseases.

“When we project the increase in diabetes and the costs associated with it, the Mexican health system will be overwhelmed,” said Dr Abelardo Avila, a physician and population studies expert, Salvador Zubiran National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition. “It can't be paid for. By the year 2020, it will be catastrophic. By 2030, it faces collapse.”

It is estimated that between 6.5 million and 10 Mexicans currently have diabetes. Mexico is currently eighth in the global list of countries ranked by prevalence of diabetes, and international experts project that by 2025 the country will be in sixth or seventh place, with 11.9 million diabetics.

While this number is far below the 20 million diabetics in the US, it is far greater as a percentage of population (8.9% vs. 6.4%).
According to the study, diabetes has been the most common cause of death in Mexico since 2000, responsible for 17.2% of all deaths.

Mexico has many risk factors suggesting an inevitable rise in the number of diabetics.

Public health experts claim changes in lifestyle that have made Mexicans more obese including fast food, sugary drinks, sedentary lifestyles, and a genetic susceptibility to diabetes.

A 2012 federal health and nutrition survey found that 64% men and 82% of women in Mexico were overweight or obese. Obesity levels have tripled in the past three decades.

Mexico now has higher obesity rates among children aged 5 to 11 years than any other country, with 34.4% of Mexican children obese. The comparable figure in the United States is 16.9%, according to the National Centre for Health Statistics.

Despite economic development over the last decade, tap water is widely considered unsafe, meaning most Mexicans have a sugary drink with their meals.

The average Mexican consumes 728,8-ounce sugary drinks of Coca-Cola per year, an average of two a day, far more than the 403,8 ounce drinks that are consumed per person annually in the US.

An estimated 30 of Mexico's 500 largest businesses produce snacks or other types of junk food, carbonated or sugary beverages, and their total annual sales top $80 billion.

It is estimated that by the middle of the century, Mexico will have 25 million elderly people, equivalent to the nation’s entire population in 1950. To make matters worse, an ever increasing number of young children are getting diabetes with 400,000 people under 15 years of age are suffering from either type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

Every hour, 38 new diabetes cases are confirmed in Mexico, 14 in every 100 diabetics will develop kidney failure of some degree and for every five diabetics two will begin to suffer blindness.

'Diabetes ten years ago was a problem mainly among people 55 years and older. But now we see cases even in young people 12 and 13 years old,' said Reyes de Ortega of the Mexican Diabetes Association. “It’s a bomb. It’s an extremely urgent problem.”

http://www.bariatricnews.net/?q=news...betes-epidemic

Every criminal act is an act of violence.

Oh my God, how much worse can it get. An American Kid dies because an illegal alien got the kidney.

Unspeakable.

I know someone who's been on dialysis for 10 years. We all know the illegal will cry discrimination and get the kidney before a US citizen does. This makes me sick!