Ilegal Aliens Impact in California

¶ … Ilegal aliens impact in California on Business, Public Schools, Criminal Justice and health care

THE IMPACT of ILLEGAL ALIENS on HEALTH CARE

ILLEGAL ALIENTS in the U.S.

Constantly increasing over the last couple of years, despite some measures to curb this trend

Encouraged by economic processes and the need to counter competitiveness on the market with cheap labor

Hard to control, especially at the land border

Hard to control once entered in the U.S.

21,911,918 illegal immigrants in the U.S. At this point (http://immigrationcounters.com/)

382,286 illegal immigrants incarcerated

1,489,287,084 - cost of illegal immigrants incarceration

698,012 illegal immigrant fugitives

10,839,080 skilled jobs taken by illegal immigrants

MORE NUMBERS!

CALIFORNIA

Constant increase from 1992 to 2007, according to all three types of statistics (INS, DHS, Pew Hispanic Center)

Trend expected to continue in the projected near future

Impacts on the U.S. society

Crime

Terrorism

Education

Diseases

Jobs and Employment

American Infrastructure

Economic Costs: HEALTH CARE

Research Question:

WHAT IS the HEALTH COST DIMENSION of ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION in CALIFORNIA?

HYPOTHESIS

Hospitals and health care units in California are impacted by higher costs because of unpaid medical bills. Primarily, these bills are from patients who are illegal immigrants.

RESEARCH PROPOSAL (I)

The article will aim at providing the causal relationships between the increasing health costs and cost impacts on hospitals and the illegal aliens.

The paper will show how the increasing number of illegal immigrants has a positive correlation with the increasing costs for hospitals.

STRUCTURE

Introduction and assumptions

Thesis presentation

Literature review

Methodology

Explanatory statistical analysis

Descriptions of illegal aliens impact on higher health costs

Conclusions

RESEARCH PROPOSAL (II)

The correlation will be made based on:

Observed increased number of unpaid medical bills at health units in California

Statistical data on the proportions of these unpaid bills belonging to illegal immigrants

Analysis of background factors that encourage this trend

WHY THIS PAPER?

Addresses more than simple statistics, going in-depth into some of the causal factors