Facing ever-increasing financial losses, Miami-Dade's struggling Jackson Health System has spent $33 million this year alone on caring for undocumented immigrants.
"On a quiet street in northwestern Miami, a Jackson nursing home serves 60 undocumented immigrants -- some paralyzed, quite a few on ventilators -- costing Miami-Dade taxpayers about $318 a day per patient.
``There's no way to place them anywhere else,'' says Armand Gonzalez, administrator of the Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center.
The cost of their care is part of the reason why the county's public hospital system is struggling with growing financial losses that border on the disastrous. Losses are expected to escalate to $168 million next year because of South Florida's unique problems -- high numbers of uninsured and high healthcare costs that keep increasing the ranks of the uninsured.
On the national level, the issue of undocumented immigrants has become politically explosive."
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