{"id":115388,"date":"2017-06-27T11:09:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115388"},"modified":"2017-06-27T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T19:12:35","slug":"nyt-undocumented-immigrants-steer-clear-of-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115388","title":{"rendered":"NYT: &#8216;Undocumented Immigrants Steer Clear of Medical Care&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tears me up inside. Why won&#8217;t illegal immigrants take more of our government-provided services? What can we do to encourage them to take more?<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/26\/health\/undocumented-immigrants-health-care.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\">New York Times<\/a>: &#8220;Around the country, clinics that serve immigrants report seeing fewer patients since the Trump administration issued broad deportation orders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yet as medical costs present a burden for millions of Americans, many people question why citizens who can scarcely afford their own health care should support through taxes the care of those living here illegally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Between 2000 and 2011, immigrants not authorized to work here contributed between $2.2 billion and $3.8 billion a year more to Medicare than they withdrew, according to a 2016 study.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tears me up inside. Why won&#8217;t illegal immigrants take more of our government-provided services? What can we do to encourage them to take more? New York Times: &#8220;Around the country, clinics that serve immigrants report seeing fewer patients since &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115388"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115391,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115388\/revisions\/115391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}