Annotated Bibliography 1 and 2

The Sinking Life Boat: Uncontrolled Immigration and the U.S. Health care System.
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=research_researchba61&gclid=CLPR__7os6cCFR9NgwodZCmU-A. Web3/3/2011
This article talks about the costs put on the health care system, its hospitals, and tax payers because of what they consider to be illegal immigrants seeking health care. It talks about the federal governments laws and regulations put on the health care system and how these rules affect insurance premiums for those who have insurance, and the effects it has on local systems. It gives a variety of statistics on states that have a high immigrant population on average loss hospitals acquire from treating those without the ability to pay. It strongly states it is the federal governments responsibility to reimburse those local health care systems that lose money from a high number of patients unable to pay, because the federal law states that no person shall be denied medical treatment regardless of ability to pay. The article is expressing the point that we need to increase border and immigration control to put a stop to ever rising health care costs.
This article gives a flip side to most of the research I have been doing. Most of the information I have found relates to the need to provide immigrants health care, regardless of legal status. That immigrants perform a much needed job and should be given the same rights as native born citizens in relation to health care.

Advocacy Needed on Health Care for Immigrants
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2010/02/advocacy-needed-on-health-care-for-immigrants.html.Web3/3/2011.
I chose this article because it shows a concern for the need for health care options for immigrants both legal and illegal. It is a great contrast to the last article. I feel this one offers other answers to the issues the previous article addressed.
This was a plea to progressive leaders to ask the president and congressman to consider the needs of immigrants while writing the health care reform bill. This article is addressing the need to enact health care reform that provides affordable health insurance to more families including immigrants. There are 2 major points they are asking for. 1. Removal of the 5 year waiting period for legal immigrants into medicaid, 2. Allow undocumented immigrants to purchase private health insurance through the new exchange programs. Overall, improve health care equity for immigrants.
This touches on where my research is going, what is being done to ensure everyone has adequate health care that is affordable. How is the current system addressing the issues faced by lower income families and immigrants?