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Mexico is talking with U.S. officials about cross-border health care for migrants, who would receive basic treatment at U.S. facilities and be treated in Mexico if they required more intensive care.
Mexican Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said Monday that discussions with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt are at an initial stage. The plan would depend on what kind of immigration reform, if any, emerges from debate in the U.S. Senate.
He said the aim was for migrants to have access to health care without regard to their immigration or work status.
“We started discussing this topic, which obviously depends in large measure on the evolution of immigration reform,” Cordova told reporters. “But at any rate it is a binational issue that interests us both.”
Cordova did not say who would pay for the migrant health care, or how much it would cost. He said he raised the issue with Leavitt in Geneva during a recent World Health Organization meeting.
Mexico is still struggling to provide health care and health insurance to Mexicans living here. Just over half of Mexico’s population lacks coverage under the country’s large, traditional, government-run health plans.
There are about 11 million Mexicans living in the U.S., both legally and illegally, and about 500,000 more people migrate every year, according to the Mexican government.
A United Nations report on migration released Monday said that lack of opportunities, more than poverty, is what is driving Mexicans to migrate to the United States.
A lack of educational opportunities and little hope for the future are prime factors that push people to migrate, but the extremely poor are least likely to go, because they lack the funds to pay for their journey north, according to the U.N. report.
“It is not the poorest (Mexicans) who are migrating to the United States but those who face equality gaps and see migration as their only option for human development,” said Thierry Lemaresquier, United Nations Development Program representative in Mexico.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/06/18/america/LA-GEN-Mexico-US-Migrant-Health-Care.php
No, it's both.
And that's the problem of Mexico and Mexico alone.
>>The health ministers of Mexico and the United States are to work out a joint strategy Tuesday for caring Mexican migrants suffering health problems along the border, the Mexican Health Ministry said on Monday.
The final plan will be sent to the U.S. Congress that is now in recess, the ministry said in a statement.<<
What is congress going to do about US citizens killed by illegal aliens? Charity begins at home.