Immigrants' Prenatal Care Costs State 5 Times The Initial Estimate

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ^ | 6-17-06 | Nell Smith

[Xenalyte]

Now, I'm not asking this to run down your wife . . . I'm truly curious.

I'm given to understand that the majority of illegal births are to women who had none or very little prenatal medical care.

If that's true, why would they see a prenatal genetic counselor? Wouldn't a doctor be more important, if you had to see someone?

[poorestrichard]

The bible says, does it not, that the best way to build a strong house is to build one that is totally divided?

The good thing I see is that while many have been screaming about the illegal alien problem for decades, finally, now that our social security system is compromised, medicare can't take care of me until I am 65, because it has mexican anchor babies and their dependents for who provision is more necessary. Our schools are infected and non-producing, dangerous, and our kids get to learn to play with real drugs, our health system imports nurses from major health-worker producing countries in which the Nursing School Population is 15% HIV Positive, finally, after all this compromise of values, Americans are ready to wake up and complain to the very politicians who try to promote social welfare programs whilst they vote for US Senate Bill 2611, which defied the will of the people, and recognized the manifest destiny of mexico.

Northward ho!

[txdoda]

The only way the predictions could have been more wrong is if ....

How "many times" would these costs have been off if ALL of the 14,580 pregnant women enrolled in the program since '04, HAD given birth in AK.......rather than the 2,698 that *actually* ended up giving birth there?

[P-40]

And since the kid is a US citizen

Once the kid is out of the womb, it is a US Citizen with access to all the welfare that entails.

[Gritty]

"Bring me your poor, your huddled masses..."

... and we'll put 'em on Medicaid, give 'em free prenatal care and childbirth, and make their kids de facto American citizens...

A birthright hasn't been sold so cheaply since the days of Jacob and Esau.

[txdoda]

If that's true, why would they see a prenatal genetic counselor?

I believe his wife works in the LA area, CA has offered up *free prenatal* for years.

Arkansas and eight other states chose to offer the new coverage. Texas, with its heavy immigrant population, is the latest state to begin offering the coverage.

I guess it's become just too cumbersome for those pregnant to sneak into TX & give birth........so TX too, will now spend our taxdollars for *free prenatal*, allowing these women to sneak in months earlier to collect their freebies.

Hmmmm....I don't recall being given a *choice* in this matter, how 'bout you ??

[txdoda]

A birthright hasn't been sold so cheaply

Sold Cheaply ???? More like given freely, at a great co$t to u$ tax payer$.....

[Mrs. Don-o]

"While immigrant advocates praised the new policy, abortion-rights leaders voiced concern about treating a fetus as a person."

They prefer to treat a fetus as landfill.

[gaussia]

I have no idea what percentage of pregnant illegal aliens receive prenatal care, but just about frequency of their appearance in my wife's clinics.

In CA, we have this prenatal screening called "Expanded AFP" which measures three blood markers that can indicate the presence of things like Down syndrome and other chromosomal problems. This is offered free of charge to any pregnant woman. As with ANY woman who receives a suspect score on this exam, illegal aliens are sent for genetic counseling to determine what might be going on. When a counselor finds reason to believe that one of these patients may well be bearing a fetus with some disorder, lots of different tests can follow, including ultrasound, amniocentesis, chorionic villus sampling, etc. Doctors can get involved, but the counselor does the initial assessment. Medi-Cal pays for all of this, at least up to a certain $$ amount.

[LadyDoc]

If you want to get rid of all the illegal Mexicans in Arkansas, call up Tyson and tell them to screen their employees.

Lot of meat packing plants are full of illegals...my son worked at one, and when they told him to work overtime without time and a half, he objected...they told he if he complained, they'd call "La Migra" and report him...he said go ahead, because he is a US citizen...

They never asked if he had papers when they hired him, but since he was bilingual and looked Hispanic they assumed he was illegal. If they knew he was legal, they might not have hired him.

The dirty little secret is a lot of these places prefer illegals to US citizens...both because they can be exploited, but also because they work harder than hiring someone who if you fire them can go on welfare or unemployment..

[P-40]

but since he was bilingual and looked Hispanic they assumed he was illegal.

You mean to say that the employer could not spot the difference right away?