Health care reform unlikely to relieve burdens on nonprofits 11/30/09

The Senate is scheduled to begin debate on its $849 billion health care bill (HR 3590) today after clearing its first procedural hurdle before the Thanksgiving holidays. However, no matter what health care bill emerges from Congress, roughly one in six uninsured Californians will be excluded because they are not legal residents. According to a story in the San Jose Mercury News (11/29/09), “none of its provisions are likely to be available to the nation’s estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants, a group that typically receives no insurance at work and lacks the means to buy it on their own,” and which often needs to turn to nonprofit clinics and hospitals for medical services. Details: http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13892103?source=rss.