RESPONSE TO DISCUSSION

Response 1

Response to Discussion

The issue of health care provision for illegal immigrants is indeed a controversial one . Once within the U .S . bs , everyone who has entered the country illegally will at one time or another require medical attention , a dispensation for which in this current global recession , the U .S . taxpayer can ill afford . According to Coley , J (2008 , in 2006 500 million was delivered by state hospitals in ensated care . This is an astronomical amount of money to be channeled into a system that does not provide any

benefit to American citizens

Taking responsibility for the health care needs of people who are not even on Medicaid is a terrible burden and some may argue that it is a human rights issue . After all , these undocumented aliens do not have jobs when they arrive and can hardly feed themselves . However , it can also be argued that the U .S . government 's record on human rights all over the world is exemplary and it would be stretching the imagination too far to expect that the U .S . taxpayer will welcome problems into the country that it solves externally . The amount of food aid and medicine being shipped from the U .S . to countries in trouble is astronomical

If the health care needs of illegal immigrants are to be met , then these undocumented aliens must be willing to submit to scrutiny by the Immigration authorities . If it is deemed that they are worthy of help then the taxpayer...