Ilegal Aliens Impact in California Thesis

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

Analyzes the background of illegal aliens and the societies they form as a direct cause of increasing health costs

Clearly links the increasing number of unpaid bills to increasing number of illegal immigrants in California

FACTS to REMEMBER

1993-2003: 60 hospitals in California were forced to close, mainly because of unpaid bills from illegal aliens (Cosman, 2005)

MediCal in 2003 had 760,000 illegal aliens, up from 2002 when there were 470,000" (Cosman, 2005)

In 1994, 74,987 anchor babies in California hospital maternity units cost $215 million and constituted 36% of all Medi-Cal births.Now they account for substantially more than half" (Cosman, 2005)

Bibliography

Cosman, Madeleine. Illegal Aliens and American Medicine. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 1 Spring 2005

http://immigrationcounters.com http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecentersb8ca

Guzzardi, Joe. Illegal Aliens: The Health Cost Dimension. 2003.

James P. Smith and Barry Edmonston, Eds., the Immigration Debate: Studies on the Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects….....