Posted on 07/11/2014 1:36:12 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Consider, for example, Guatemala. According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Guatemalan kids are more likely than Texans to be immunized for most infectious diseases. Guatemala has universal health care. Vaccines are 100 percent funded by the government.
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Ms. Pearson if Guatemala is healthcare heaven, then why are they coming here?
Perzactly.
UNICEF = Unicorns and rainbows.
Handouts and (for some) higher-paying jobs or any jobs.
If anyone can challenge the vaccination statistics presented in the article with verifiable data, please do.
Scabies, lice and what not do come across the border, in legal immigrants and visitors as well. BTW, scabies is considered an STD in most cases. So avoid sexual contact with these kids lol.
Guatemala...
If only the U. S. could grow up to be like it...
Gag me Pearson!
Really?!!! Why are so many quarantined? Scabies, TB, etc. Lice falling off the kids! Why can't reporters, congresscritters, et al, go see them.
Wildly overstated, huh? That’s kinda like the difference between recession. It’s a recession if I’m out of work, the economy’s fine if I’m working.
The disease threat is only “wildly overstated” for those who don’t catch a disease.
Not because of the lice, etc. Because so many of them look like young adult gang members, not cute kids.
Yet another detail that really questions the reality that one side is projecting. My take is that while the health insurance is guaranteed, other issues like actual money to play with is limited in Guatemala for your salary.
Seeing some potential threat which may or may not happen to you is hard. Seeing yourself having more income in your paycheck is easier in comparison. A lot of people in Guatemala also don’t have the very electricity we take for granted, which is something worth pondering when you wonder why it’s more than healthcare to get someone into this country.
And there is where I stopped reading.
If the UN can lecture us on so many utopias, then why the hell are these people still trying desperately to get into the US?
That flipping idiot obama wants nearly 4 billion dollars to take care of the "problem"...a problem that is the direct result of his and that dysfunctional bunch of assholes at the UN.
We dump billions of dollars into the UN.
Let's make one, ONE exception, and allow the UN to come in here on our sovereign shores, gather all these kids up and let them take them back to the utopias whence they came.
FUBO and FUUN!
I am so tired of this crap!
The system sounds ideal. “Free healthcare for all,” at least via the public arm of El Ministerio de Salud. The reality is that many, as much as 40% of the population, do not have access to healthcare. They cannot afford the perhaps 9-hour journey to the nearest doctor, neither in money for the bus nor in time away from work. The public hospitals are crowded and understaffed – patients are often turned away and asked to return another day, after they have made the trip and waited in line for hours. Communication between and even within arms is poor – a patient might leave a hospital with a new diagnosis of AIDS, which may or may not be communicated to his nearest Puesto de Salud via snail mail. Instead much of the population relies on traditional practices. Comadronas, traditional midwives, often become the medical practitioners of their communities. Most of these women do not have formal training, but rather generational knowledge passed down from mother to daughter. There are Curanderos who practice natural herbal medicine, which can work but not for everything. In very remote areas people depend on brujos (yes, this does translate to “witches”) who practice magic and cure problemas de los espíritus.
http://naranetacrossing.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/the-healthcare-system-in-guatemala/
Guatemala does attempt to vaccinate children but that might be the only exposure most of the population has to the health care system
As the World Bank puts it
Guatemala is among the worst performers in terms of health outcomes in Latin America, with one of the highest infant mortality rates, and one of the lowest life expectancies at birth. Major causes of death in Guatemala still include treatable, and communicable diseases, such as diarrhea, pneumonia, cholera, malnutrition, and tuberculosis. A significant share of Guatemalans lack access to health care services
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=477894&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000094946_0302070416252
United Nations Children’s Fund
No agenda there...
If these kids are so healthy, then take them to DC and drop them off in the US Congress and at the White House. Let them rub themselves all over the politicians in DC.
A statistical argument that dismisses those impacted when their government refused to protect them and serve written LAW.
BULLSPIT!!!
Pearson needs to peddle her crap somewhere else.
We never had lice in the school until the illegals showed up. Now it is common if not rampant.
As for other diseases... she is misinformed at best but probably intentionally misleading.
That is the problem today... everybody can mouth off, including me, and print or say anything... what are you to believe?
There are a whole lot more opinions than fact flying around.
Another ignorant liberal.
She's right. It would be cruel to keep them here. She should go too.
Howd’ja like to be on a domestic flight with one of these wetbacks coughing up their TB for a couple of hours??
Maybe SITTING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU?? (Behind ya?)
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