Lance D. Johnson – Natural News Apr 26, 2024
One of the most overlooked financial burdens on the American medical system is the unpaid medical bills coming directly from illegal immigrants. Illegal border crossings surpassed 3.2 million in 2023 — a record high.
According to Customs and Border Protection data, apprehensions of illegal aliens have nearly tripled since 2019. These illegal aliens are people who oftentimes have serious medical needs, but have little to no financial resources. Illegal immigration burdens state Medicaid programs and uses up charities at an unsustainable pace.
Illegal immigration adds billions of dollars in unpaid medical bills to a medical system that’s already falling apart
Every year, tens of thousands of illegal immigrants flood U.S. hospitals, looking for treatment for infectious diseases, chronic diseases and disabilities. In fact, American hospitals as a whole are losing multiple billions of dollars annually because of unpaid medical bills coming directly from illegal immigrants. These unpaid medical bills drive up the overall cost of healthcare – a cost that ultimately gets passed on to Americans, who can barely afford healthcare as it is.
According to a new report from the House Committee on Homeland Security, the United States spends $451 billion annually due to the invasion at the U.S. border. The report finds that a significant portion of these annual costs are due to unpaid healthcare for illegal immigrants.
Most illegal immigrants lack medical insurance and depend on hospital discounts, private charities and government welfare programs. State Medicaid programs are absorbing unanticipated costs that only drive up the cost of health insurance premiums and deductibles for Americans. For example, Denver Health served approximately 8,000 illegal immigrants in 2023. These illegals made roughly 20,000 visits to the city’s health system that year. If the illegals qualify for Medicaid, they are more prone to use the system more often for minor issues. This makes it harder for Americans to get appointments and contributes to longer wait times at hospitals. The American medical system and the welfare programs that accompany it were not designed to absorb the influx of people and the medical problems that they bring.
Sanctuary cities absorb tens of thousands of medical visits from illegals, leading to longer wait times and higher costs for Americans
The Congressional report found that total Medicaid costs for “emergency services for undocumented aliens” in fiscal year 2021 exceeded $7 billion.
Denver Health public information officer Dane Roper said the total bill for uncompensated healthcare costs in 2023 was $140 million. Uncompensated healthcare costs have rapidly increased in recent years across Denver’s healthcare system. In 2020, uncompensated costs totaled $60 million. Two years later, the figure doubled, rising to $120 million.
“The perspective we’ve been trying to emphasize all along is that providing healthcare services for an influx of new immigrants who are unable to pay for their care is adding additional strain to an already significant uncompensated care burden,” Mr. Roper said. It’s an issue that needs to be urgently addressed. He advocates for local, state and federal governments to get involved and address the needs of new illegal immigrant populations, before it is financially untenable to respond to anyone’s medical needs, whether they are legal citizens or not.
In California, lawmakers recently worsened the problem by approving free healthcare for all illegal immigrants within the state. The new law is projected to cost taxpayers up to $6 billion per year. Many illegal immigrants have several untreated health issues.
According to Dr. Robert Trenschel, CEO of the Yuma Regional Medical Center, which is situated on the Arizona-Mexico border, illegal immigrants often cost up to three times more than the average American to treat. “Some [illegal] migrants come with minor ailments, but many of them come in with significant disease,” Dr. Trenschel said during a congressional hearing last year.
“We’ve had migrant patients on dialysis, cardiac catheterization, and in need of heart surgery. Many are very sick,” he said. Some illegals spend up to 60 days or more in the ICU before they can be safely discharged. If the issue of illegal immigration is not solved at the source, then its humanitarian impacts will continue to inhibit access to healthcare and drive up the cost of medical care for Americans.
Sources include:
Homeland.House.gov [PDF]
Just as an add —
Keeping track of US states is headache enough… but it’s just as bad and often quite worse elsewhere in the Eurozone.
Complaints have come to me from Finland, Canada, and recently maybe especially from an emergency care GP in London, England. All of these places have laws essentially saying the indigent have the right to medical care.
And all of us taxpayers, apparently, have the duty to fund it. The same people complaining about the West being so imperialist and callous are also forcing the impoverishment and eventually the radicalization of the native-born population.
Enough!. Don’t make the rest of us join the Hitler Was Right Club. For some reason, someone seems to want that…
Yep! The smarmy greasy kike are dismantling the camp of the saints, and will continue as long our government and corporate leadership are beholden to the jew cock. It is any wonder they can speak with so much of it shoved down their throats and up their asses.
after w w 2 many british folk said why cant he have a health system paid each week from our wages like Hitler did for his people ?
so the NHS was formed
but its collapsed because foreign migrants were coming here to use it for free
America looks after the illegals but wants Americans dead, so maybe America is both illegal and dying
Healthcare has failed catastrophically in Sweden due to mass migration of people who don’t pay into the system, but use it to their benefit. One small example… a relative there waited over a year for an appointment with a specialist of the medical issue he was suffering from. By the time his appointment came, his disease was so far advanced that nothing could be done. He died a week after his appointment. Swedes with any money at all are turning to 100% out of pocket private doctors because the state provided care is grossly inadequate. Another example… In some areas of Sweden husbands of expectant mothers are required to take a course on handling the birth themselves because hospitals have shut down due to debt caused by mass migrants draining the system of resources, necessitating women having to travel hours to get to a working hospital. Many don’t make it, hence the husbands are birthing the babies in cars and on the side of the road.
We are expendable to our traitorous so-called leaders. But the migrants are essential to their plans for the destruction of our societies. Hence, they are lured here with promises of healthcare, money, residences, education and more. The money to pay for these benefits is being stolen from those of us who work hard for it. It’s time for a tax revolt!
Lerch and lewis jones have it right in their comments above.
“Illegal immigration is costing American hospitals billions of dollars in unpaid medical bills” … Costing Americunt hospitals, huh? As if the costs of those deadbeat parasitic invaders don’t get passed on to the poor saps who actually pay their bills. Illegals should be given the option of immediately literally running back across the border, being chased through the streets and slaughtered, or air-dropped back in their home cuntry from 10,000 feet sans parachute. While anyone and everyone aiding and abetting the invasions dragged through the streets by their ankles and executed. Period.
This is what happens when jew/gov replaces the Word who was with God & is God.
this is very good because the most doctors are jews .
they are the mainreason american healthcare is so
expensive . but they will suck the white legal citizens
more .