Undocumented Mexicans By Alexander Ortega Summary

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The article, “Health Care Access, Use of Services, and Experiences among Undocumented Mexicans and other Latinos,” by Alexander Ortega (2014), compares access, use, and experiences with health care services. The author says that the Mexicans without proper authorization or citizenship have few visits to physicians compared to those that are US-born. Similar results were found among the Latinos who were undocumented. The reason why the undocumented immigrants were not willing to pay physicians visits is because they fear they will be deported. Moreover, the health care facilities need to have proper documentation to be treated, which causes barriers to access of healthcare services. It can be noted that the pattern to the use and access of healthcare …show more content…
The current debate on the policy is the issue of use and access to health care services by these undocumented immigrants. Those proposing restrictive measures and policy blame the immigrants for the pressure on public service. They say that the immigrants have overused the services placing the unnecessary burden for the public service. Glenn (2009) says that it is true that to some extent the immigrants might have strain public service in America. Politics can be part of such propositions and wouldn’t be right to place such strong fact as fact without scientific evidence. However, the use of resources in American has been a critical issue that have caused concern among the policy makers and the public. Several studies have explored the experiences of undocumented immigrants on health care facilities (Mackenbach, …show more content…
Spain has a national framework, financed with general duty income, the devolution of health administrations to the nation 's 17 independent groups. This has prompted a mixture of administration models (Blendon, 2011). The National Ministry is responsible for general coordination of national health matters, enactment on medications, outskirt health issues, and universal health relations. However, every group has a health office in charge of key ranges, for example, social insurance arranging, open health and administration of health

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