Immigrants cause insurance crisis!Since 1987 the percentage of Americans without health insurance--purchased privately, provided by employers, or provided by the government--has risen from 12.9 percent to 15.9 percent. That figure is often used to suggest a steadily worsening wors·en tr. & intr.v. wors·ened, wors·en·ing, wors·ens To make or become worse. Noun 1. worsening - process of changing to an inferior state decline in quality, deterioration, declension crisis that only government intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. can solve. But the story is more complicated than those numbers initially suggest. Among native-born na·tive-born adj. Belonging to a place by birth. Adj. 1. native-born - belonging to a place by birth; "a native-born Scot"; "a native Scot" Americans, insurance levels actually have been pretty steady since 1993, with a small rise in the percentage of people insured. In that year, 86.3 percent of native-born Americans were insured, compared with 86.6 in 2005. The increase in the percentage of the population that isn't covered has come almost entirely from immigrants. And it's unlikely that those immigrants would be getting better health care back in Central America Central America, narrow, southernmost region (c.202,200 sq mi/523,698 sq km) of North America, linked to South America at Colombia. It separates the Caribbean from the Pacific. . [GRAPHIC OMITTED] |
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