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Popol Vuh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 12:55 AM
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Undocumented immigrants, afraid to use the mainstream health care system
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:45 AM
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1. There are legal U.S. citizens who are afraid to use the mainstream health care system!

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Popol Vuh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-11-08 01:52 AM
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2. Do they do so because they're afraid of being deported?
Edited on Sun May-11-08 01:54 AM by Popol Vuh
That's one of the two reasons for my posting this. First to show an example of Shamanic healing, and, second to show that immigrants are not using health care services to the extent they are portrayed.

Actually many of them pay income taxes as well as other taxes, but, because of their legal status don't collect tax returns. So immigrants pay as much for or more for through their taxes for services that they don't use near as much as legal citizens. In other words, I don't see any reason for all this fear mongering that we see in the media over immigrants taxing our health care system.

Oh, by the way, I like your rocknation sig.. :)
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