Undocumented Aliens & Health Care Rights

The purpose of this research is twofaceted. First, the purpose of this research is to explore the issue of the provision of free or subsidized access to health care services for undocumented aliens residing in the United States. Second, the purpose of this research is consider the provision of free or subsidized access to health care services for undocumented aliens residing in the United States within the context of the potential impact of this issue on the practice of midwifery in the United States.

With respect to access to health care services by undocumented aliens within the United States, the issue does not center on the denial of such access on the basis that an individual is an undocumented alien, but rather on the denial of free or subsidized access to health care services for undocumented aliens (Nickel, 1986, pp. 1923). Moralists within American society contend that anyone in the country requiring health care services should have access to such services, regardless of whether such an individual can pay for the required services, and regardless of whether such an individual is in the United States under legal circumstances (Blankenau, 1993, pp. 3639). Opponents of free health care access for undocumented aliens contend that government, both federal and state, in the United States cannot afford to f

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not afford to fund health care services for the indigent. Either a national health insurance system or a national health care system that guarantees necessary health care delivery to all citizens in the United States appears to be the only feasible solution to the problem. The enactment of such a national system, however, would not necessarily address the issue of providing access to free or subsidized health care services for undocumented aliens residing in the country. A fourth factor affecting the provision of health care services to undocumented aliens residing in the United States is that a high proportion of undocumented aliens arrive in the United States already suffering from serious illnesses such as tuberculosis and AIDS, or acquired immunity deficiency syndrome (Farmer and Kim, 1991, pp. 203221). The costs of treating such serious illnesses exacerbates the health care funding problem. The increase in the incidence of tuberculosis in the United States over the past 15 years has developed into a public health crisis (Eubanks, 1992, p. 60). Simultaneously, tuberculosis has become increasingly drug resistant, causing treatment to be less effective and control to become more difficult (Gebhart, 1992, pp. 3741). The
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)

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