VivirLatino

If anyone wonders about the veracity of current immigration policy being partially responsible for the gap in health and health care access between Latinos and other groups of people, one needs only to read the recent NYT article that tells of how U.S. hospitals are dumping and deporting undocumented immigrants in critical need of care.

The reason, undocumented immigrants lack health insurance and the hospitals are other critical care centers (i.e. rehab centers and nursing homes) don’t want to have to pay the bill. In a country where health care is more about big business than about caring for the sick, hospitals are leasing planes to “take care” of their patients.

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