Illegal Immigrants Should Not Get Health Care
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Illegal immigrants move to more politically, financially, and economically stable countries in search of better living conditions (Joseph, 2017). An illegal immigrant is an individual who enters another country without the legal paperwork to do so. The individual may be a new immigrant or who lives and works there but has not been noticed by the relevant authorities. Giving medical care to undocumented individuals is an idea that should not be welcome as it reduces the efficacy of the disease monitoring process; furthermore, the provision of health care to illegal immigrants would prove costly to the taxpaying citizens of America and result in little or no improvements to the health care industry (Kim et al., 2019).
With the assumably high numbers of immigrants from all over the world, the American health care system can easily be affected if these individuals were to receive care. The costs would be high, and healthcare personnel would sacrifice their time to care for them rather than focus on people with the legal right to be in the country. Individuals with no legal right to be in a given country do not have any right to receive the benefits of that country; this must be considered by those who argue in favor of offering these individuals health care(Joseph, 2017).
For an alien individual to receive healthcare, he or she must first clear with the relevant immigration authority through due process and then be legible for health care benefits. Failure to do this would jeopardize the agenda of the healthcare sector to grow, develop and offer its citizens the best services possible (Kim et al., 2019). Illegal immigrants are a large and disputed group, therefore, giving them healthcare would be detrimental to the financial position of the health care sector and a violation of the constitution.
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Joseph, T. D. (2017). Falling through the coverage cracks: how documentation status minimizes immigrants’ access to health care. Journal of health politics, policy and law, 42(5), 961-984.
Kim, G., Molina, U. S., & Saadi, A. (2019). Should immigration status information be included in a patient’s health record?. AMA journal of ethics, 21(1), 8-16.