Tax Paying, Undocumented Immigrants, Should be Able to Purchase Health Insurance
It is estimated that about 11.2 million Undocumented Immigrants live in the United States, about 728,000 of these individuals are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients (Castaneda, R., 2016). Under the Affordable Care Act, these are individuals that can qualify for health insurance, but due to the Affordable Care Act, section 1312 (f) (c), undocumented immigrants are not allowed to purchase health insurance. According to section 1312 (f) (3):
“Access limited to lawful residents. If an individual is not, or is not reasonably expected to be for the entire period for which enrollment is sought, a citizen or national of the United States or an …show more content…
I help many individuals with resources and several of the people I work with are undocumented individuals. I meet many of them after they have come to the emergency department. Many are referred to me to help with financial assistance and most of those individuals who are referred to me, have cancer. Many of their stories are the same, they entered the emergency room with either a pain that has become too much to tolerate or a small lump in their breast that has increased in size. Most of the time these pains have the outcome of being cancer. Some have been lucky and are in the early stages of cancer, but a majority of them tend to have a form of metastatic …show more content…
In 2013, different study showed that the federal and state government paid about $10.7 billion dollars in emergency Medicaid for undocumented individuals (Mukherjee, S., 2013). In 2015, New York provided emergency Medicaid to an estimated 208,000 undocumented individuals with an estimated cost of $400 million dollars (Radnofsky, L., 2016).
In 2008, the Journal of the American Heart Association published an article that focused on three chronic diseases: cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These chronic disease are the focus of the study due having the highest in cost in health care. The study estimates that in the course of 30 years, taking care of these chronic disease will cost about $9.5 trillion dollars. Preventive services, could cut cost by $904 billion dollars or roughly about 10% (Kahn, R., Robertson, R.M., Smith, R., & Eddy, D., 2008). This was in 2008, cost of living and medical services have since increased, making the cost greater now than in
It is estimated that about 11.2 million Undocumented Immigrants live in the United States, about 728,000 of these individuals are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients (Castaneda, R., 2016). Under the Affordable Care Act, these are individuals that can qualify for health insurance, but due to the Affordable Care Act, section 1312 (f) (c), undocumented immigrants are not allowed to purchase health insurance. According to section 1312 (f) (3):
“Access limited to lawful residents. If an individual is not, or is not reasonably expected to be for the entire period for which enrollment is sought, a citizen or national of the United States or an …show more content…
I help many individuals with resources and several of the people I work with are undocumented individuals. I meet many of them after they have come to the emergency department. Many are referred to me to help with financial assistance and most of those individuals who are referred to me, have cancer. Many of their stories are the same, they entered the emergency room with either a pain that has become too much to tolerate or a small lump in their breast that has increased in size. Most of the time these pains have the outcome of being cancer. Some have been lucky and are in the early stages of cancer, but a majority of them tend to have a form of metastatic …show more content…
In 2013, different study showed that the federal and state government paid about $10.7 billion dollars in emergency Medicaid for undocumented individuals (Mukherjee, S., 2013). In 2015, New York provided emergency Medicaid to an estimated 208,000 undocumented individuals with an estimated cost of $400 million dollars (Radnofsky, L., 2016).
In 2008, the Journal of the American Heart Association published an article that focused on three chronic diseases: cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. These chronic disease are the focus of the study due having the highest in cost in health care. The study estimates that in the course of 30 years, taking care of these chronic disease will cost about $9.5 trillion dollars. Preventive services, could cut cost by $904 billion dollars or roughly about 10% (Kahn, R., Robertson, R.M., Smith, R., & Eddy, D., 2008). This was in 2008, cost of living and medical services have since increased, making the cost greater now than in