Starting out in the population demographics, I have chosen to discuss the illegal immigrants that are here in the United States, who receives health care. One of the division issues is the United States policy. There is a large rise of illegal immigrants in the United States that has gain up in the last 12 years, which has cause some conflicts with the immigrants health care. There has been a lot of discussion on how the immigrants come over to the United States illegal, and have a large group with them. The economics of illegal immigrants in our country is a demographic and politicians to increase. The United States brought out a program called Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which means hospitals, could not refuse treatment to anyone who had an emergency medical condition. The health care that cannot be paid for in the hospital brings financial citizens hardship on all hospitals emergency rooms, which will increase the cost for paying patients here in the United States.
By this act being put into place it made it difficult for any hospital to refuse care to anyone, even if they were here illegal, not a citizen, or couldn’t afford to pay. The immigrants, who couldn’t afford to pay, came in hurt, and sick which were undocumented to the hospital’s emergency room, without either being held responsible for their medical bills, or even without paying. One hundred and ninety million dollars, of these medical expenses was paid to most health care cost over the border countries hospitals, which were liable for unpaid medical care. This results in these southwest boarder hospitals to be reliable for health care cost unpaid by the INS. (INS, 2001). It was said in the late 2000, Oklahoma Health Authorities had a project that was put into place to spend at least ten million dollars on all emergency medical treatment for immigrants. They would also use