San Antonio Tea Party » National Health Care http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us The offficial San Antonio Tea Party Site Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:31:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Illegal Immigration Enters the Health-Care Debate http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/344/illegal-immigration-enters-the-health-care-debate/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=illegal-immigration-enters-the-health-care-debate http://www.sanantonioteaparty.us/344/illegal-immigration-enters-the-health-care-debate/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:41:14 +0000 San Antonio Tea Party http://sanantonioteaparty.org/?p=344 A health clinic in this blue-collar city north of Oakland, partly funded by the county, is saving local hospitals thousands of dollars in emergency-room visits by treating uninsured patients who suffer only non-urgent ailments.

A watchdog group is now calling on county officials to cut funding for clinic patients who can’t prove they are in the U.S. legally, a debate certain to surface in the national health-care overhaul.

With congressional proposals already stirring raw emotions, few supporters are eager to add the incendiary issue of illegal immigration. A provision in the House’s health-care-overhaul bill rules out federal funding for illegal immigrants.

But in many ways, illegal immigration is at the nexus of two key health issues: the uninsured and ballooning costs.

Roughly half of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. don’t have health insurance, according to the Pew Hispanic Center, a nonpartisan research group. Like others who can’t afford medical care, illegal immigrants tend to flock to hospital emergency rooms, which, under a 1986 law, can’t turn people away, even if they can’t pay. Emergency-room visits, where treatment costs are much higher than in clinics, jumped 32% nationally between 1996 and 2006, the latest data available.

The role illegal immigrants play in U.S. health-care costs is “one hot button that no one wants to touch,” says Stephen Zuckerman, an economist at the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington.

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Protestors rally against Obama health care plan
8/9/2009 5:05 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff

Hundreds of protestors rallied on the steps of the Capitol Sunday, most demonstrating against President Barack Obama’s national health care initiative.Protestors chanted, “Kill the bill. Kill the bill.”

Only a handful of people were there to support the president’s plan.

“I’m a veteran. I would like to see everybody have a good health care program. That’d be fine, but find the money to pay for it and find the same one for the Congress and the Senate as they got for me and then I’d be happy,” San Antonio resident Amos Joel Jones said.

The crowd was estimated to be about 250 people

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Hundreds protest against
Obama plan

Protestors say health plan is too
intrusive

Updated: Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:32 PM CDT
Published : Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:32 PM CDT

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Hundreds of people lined the stairs of the state capitol on Sunday afternoon to rally against President Obama’s health care plan.

About 200 people attended the afternoon protest. Most of the people said the President’s health care plan is too much government intrusion.

The plan is known as America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. It would give Americans a public health care option and allow those who are satisfied with their coverage to keep it.

“This is letting the people know that Obama and his cronies aren’t going to push this down our throats. We will fight it,” said John Edwards who traveled 200 miles to attend the protest.

Lizzette Sciski asked, “for Obama and Congress to sit there and think that we can just take a piece meal and take a number like it happens in so many countries, how about if they do it?”

In Washington, many lawmakers are taking the summer break as a time to speak to their constituents about health care reform.

President Obama warning Americans, however, that some are spewing misleading information and outlandish claims to defeat what
he calls “the best chance of reform we have ever had.”

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