Rising health care costs put focus on illegal immigrants

Juan Perez had stomach pains for a month before deciding to visit a health clinic here that is open Thursday nights so migrant farmworkers don’t miss a day working in the fields.

As an illegal, uninsured immigrant, Perez has had problems in the past — not only with his health, but with navigating the U.S. health care maze. In Michigan, there was no interpreter at his local health clinic, the bills had to be paid in installments, and co-workers warned that a visit to a doctor could lead to deportation. In North Carolina, he’s found a health care home at Tiffany Revels’ weekly clinic — providing he can hitch a ride there.

“The biggest concern is getting sick, because you don’t have anyone here,” Perez says after Revels, a family nurse practitioner at the federally funded clinic, prescribes two antibiotics and Pepto-Bismol tablets for his bacterial gastritis. “You are here by yourself.”"*

*From: http://www.usatoday.com
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