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How Medicine May Save the Life of US Immigration Policy: From Clinical and Educational Encounters to Ethical Public Policy

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Title
How Medicine May Save the Life of US Immigration Policy: From Clinical and Educational Encounters to Ethical Public Policy
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The AMA Journal of Ethic, March 2017
DOI 10.1001/journalofethics.2017.19.3.peer1-1703
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Mark G Kuczewski

Abstract

Medicine has a conceptual contribution to make to the immigration debate. Our nation has been unable to move forward with meaningful immigration reform because many citizens seem to assume that immigrants are in the United States to access benefits to which they are not entitled. In contrast, when medicine encounters undocumented immigrants in the health care or medical education setting, it is obvious that their contributions to our health care system are denied by exclusionary laws. When the system is amended to be inclusive, immigrants become contributors to the systems that they access. I illustrate this thesis concerning the benefits of inclusion through an examination of the issues of forced medical repatriation, access to health insurance, and the access of undocumented students to medical education.

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Unknown 34 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 21%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 15%
Student > Bachelor 4 12%
Librarian 3 9%
Researcher 3 9%
Other 7 21%
Unknown 5 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 14 41%
Social Sciences 5 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 12%
Psychology 2 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 12%
Unknown 4 12%