President. for very little money this proposal will help save certain trauma care centers from certain closure without this needed Federal assistance. This legislation addresses the real live crisis that now faces trauma care centers along the United StatesMexican border. These facilitiesalready struggling with a burden of uncompensated losses resulting from Increasing numbers of uninsured patients. inadequate reimbursement numbers. and tremendously increased drug and crime related injuriesnow face the additional financial challenge of caring for undocumented trauma victims. that is to say. undocumented. not U.S. citizens but people who are in dire nu ed of emergency assistance having suffered trauma. Despite our best efforts under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 the flow of undocumented aliens continues into the United States virtually unchecked. One of the costly implications of our failed immigration policy Is the financially strained trauma centers along the United StatesMexican border. These centers care for thousands of undocumented patients each year. Many trauma centers in the border counties of Texas. Arizona.
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