Unocumented Immigrants

I’m writing this on behave of all undocumented immigrants. As a nurse we must care for all types of populations. In our healthcare today, we have many vulnerability individual and communities. Vulnerability means a certain population whom may include racial, children, elderly, poor, underinsured or those with medical condition; whom health conditions are worsening by inadequate access to health care. Today’s topic is on the denial of health care benefits to undocumented immigrants. Today health care cost for everyone is very high. Every time an uninsured person needs medical attention it tends to be when they are very sick. These uninsured people then need a high dollar amount of money to fix the medical problem or to save them because it is

no longer an easy fix as if we caught it in a routine checkup. The uninsured person then is unable to pay for the medical debt. This debt is taken on by the hospitals. The debt must be paid by someone and in return is pass on to those with insurance. The insurance then passes it on to have higher deductible and higher cost to those whom are insured. This is the same concept of why undocumented immigrants increases health care cost for everyone. They only use the health care system when a bigger problem arises. This then cost more money than if we provided preventive health in the first place. Health care needs to be paid for and those who see the increase are those who use the health care system for prevention method or are insured. The increase cost then makes those who are insured use it less or loss their insurance, which increase the cost of having health care insurance even more. This is a vicious cycle. If we provided healthcare benefits to everyone including the undocumented immigrants, we provided access to preventive healthcare to all. Providing this promotes healthier lifestyle and healthier people. People would then spend less money to stop major illness. Please take inconsideration that undocumented immigrants are valuable and need healthcare as everyone else. Thank you so much for your time.