The federal government has been spending $20 billion annually to reimburse these hospitals — most in poor urban and rural areas —for treating more than their share of the uninsured, including illegal immigrants. The health care law will eventually cut that money in half, based on the premise that fewer people will lack insurance after the law takes effect.
But the estimated 11 million people now living illegally in the United States are not covered by the health care law. Its sponsors, seeking to sidestep the contentious debate over immigration, excluded them from the law's benefits.
As a result, safety-net hospitals said the cuts would deal a severe blow to their finances.
The hospitals are coming under this pressure because many of their uninsured patients are illegal immigrants, and because their large pools of uninsured or poorly insured patients are not expected to be reduced significantly under the Affordable Care Act, even as federal aid shrinks.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/07/26/4665140/illegal-migrants-hurt-by-new-law.html#storylink=omni_popular
And as time goes by, we will find more surprises in the bill that will screw more and more people. and those of us in the Southwest will be hurt the worse.
My view on illegals who seek free medical care- treat them so they are stable and then put them on an ambulance plane and send them to their home country.
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