Illegal Aliens and California's Healthcare System

Paper Summary:

This paper reports that the impact of illegal alien immigrants on the California health care system is astronomical especially because illegal immigrants bring infectious disease into California and the United States. Many of these diseases have never been known in the United States while others were long ago eradicated from the U.S. The author stresses that California physicians must develop an initiative to address preventative health care and disease detection and treatment for this population. The paper recommends a qualitative methodology using focus groups of California private practitioners to formulate a plan through which private practitioners may provide medical care for illegal immigrant aliens.

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Problem Statement
Research Objectives
Research Design
Literature Review
Summary of the Literature Reviewed
Methodology
Instrumentation and Data Collection
Method of Analysis
Time Schedule
Resources Needed
Personnel
Budget
Participation Release Form
Consent Form for Participation in Research

From the Paper:

"FAIR further reports: "Immigrants are often uninsured and underinsured. Forty-three percent of noncitizens under 65 have no health insurance. That means there are 9.4 million uninsured immigrants, a majority of whom are in the country illegally, constituting 15 percent of the total uninsured in the nation in the mid-1990s. The cost of the medical care of these uninsured immigrants is passed onto the taxpayer, and strains the financial stability of the health care community. Another problem is immigrants' use of hospital and emergency services rather than preventative medical care."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Berk, Marc L.; Schur, Claudia L.; Chavez, Leo R. and Frankel, Martin (2000) Health Care Use Among Undocumented Latino Immigrants. Health Affairs July/August 2000. Project Hope. Online available at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/19/4/51.pdf
• Cosman, Madeleine Pelmer (2005) Illegal Aliens and American Medicine. The Journal of the American Physicians and Surgeons. Vol. 10. No. 1 Spring, 2005.
• Cromer, Mark (2007) California Travesty. The Washington Times. 27, Aug 2007. Online available at: http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/EDITORIAL/108270019/1013
• Derose, Kathryn Pitkin; Escarce, Jose J., and Lurie, Nicole (2007) Immigrants and Health Care: Sources of Vulnerability. Health Affairs 26, No. 5. 2007 Project Hope. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/26/5/1258
• Illegal Aliens Bringing Drug-Resistant TB and Other Diseases With Them (2005) The Business Word. Online available at: http://www.businessword.com/index.php/weblog/comments/1598/

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