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Page 175_2 first posted: July 6, 2008, Draft edition Previous Page: Page 175_1 All Archives Next page: Page 176 Articles and Topics series 175, #2 Importing poverty for greater Profits and Power...
1) The Articles linked below were Abstracted from the sources cited. After the abstract there's analysis and commentary, links to related articles, and a link to the database with suggested search terms. Alarm grows on kids' dental healthRecent Medi-Cal cuts will make the problem worse, officials warn.By Jane Liaw - jliaw@sacbee.com Published 12:00 am PDT Sunday, July 6, 2008 As a pediatric dentist, Dr. James Musser sees many cautionary tales. In his 26 years of practice in Sacramento County, Musser has on occasion placed stainless steel crowns on all of a young patient's rotted baby teeth. Sometimes these tiny teeth are so decayed they are unsalvageable, and he must remove them all. "Parents think they get a free ride on the first set," Musser said. "But baby teeth can decay and abscess, and the child can go through severe pain." Musser sees some of the most serious cases in the county because he is one of the few pediatric specialists able to administer the general anesthesia that many of the patients referred to him require during treatment. Tooth decay is children's worst chronic health problem, a "hidden epidemic," according to the Dental Health Foundation's 2006 "California Smile Survey." And dental health officials say the problem will only get worse with a 10 percent cut to Medi-Cal that took effect statewide Tuesday as part of the state's effort to deal with the state budget deficit. In Sacramento, Yolo, Amador, El Dorado and Placer counties, about 65 percent of children living in poverty do not have adequate access to dental care, according to the Sacramento District Dental Foundation. Statewide studies have shown that poor access is the result of lack of insurance and a limited number of dentists providing care for uninsured or underinsured patients. Across California, children have more dental problems than children in most other states, according to the Smile Survey. More than half of all California children have experienced tooth decay by kindergarten. Almost one in five have extensive decay, the study shows. As with many other health conditions, poor and minority children have a disproportionately high number of cavities and poor oral health. Latino children have the highest risk for dental problems, according to the survey. Among Latinos, 72 percent have experienced decay and 26 percent had cavities on seven or more teeth. "All things are not equal," said Gayle Mathe, manager of policy development for the California Dental Association. "Eighty percent of disease is in 25 percent of children." ... Lack of dental insurance or not being able to afford dental care was the main reason parents gave to the Smile Survey for not taking their children to the dentist. About 23 percent of parents reported having no insurance, 42 percent had some sort of government coverage, leaving about 35 percent with private insurance. Those who rely on Medi-Cal will face more difficulties in the future getting their children the dental care they need. Denti-Cal, as the dental portion of Medi-Cal is known, covers 6.6 million adults and children in California. It uses only 2 percent of the entire Medi-Cal budget, according to the Dental Health Foundation. The budget cuts to Medi-Cal mean Denti-Cal providers will also take a 10 percent cut in reimbursements. Even before the cuts, Denti-Cal reimbursed well under 40 percent of what dentists are generally paid, said Musser. He says he fears that the budget cuts will result in fewer and fewer dentists accepting such patients. About 4,000 of the state's 34,000 active dentists provide 97 percent of all services to Denti-Cal patients, according to the Dental Health Foundation.
2) The Article linked below was Abstracted from the source cited. Immigrant sanctuary laws seen as practicalTyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, July 6, 2008 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/07/06/MN7U11JLM7.DTL San Francisco's 1989 sanctuary law grew out of the religious-based sanctuary movement through which churches across the country offered a safe haven to Central Americans who fled civil war and political persecution but were unable to gain asylum in the United States. For local governments, however, the motivation behind sanctuary policies today has more to do with effective policing than humanitarian impulses. "Some police departments say ... 'We don't want our police officers enforcing immigration law because if they do, victims and witnesses of crimes won't cooperate with us,' " said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis law school and an expert on immigration and civil rights law. Last week, San Francisco's sanctuary ordinance came under fire after The Chronicle revealed the Juvenile Probation Department's practice of flying illegal immigrant teenagers convicted of drug offenses back to their home countries or housing them in unlocked group homes. Mayor Gavin Newsom denounced the practice, and city officials are now working with federal immigration authorities to develop a new approach for handling juvenile illegal immigrants who commit crimes. Legal analysts, city officials and immigrant advocates say San Francisco's practice was not required - and not intended - by sanctuary laws. Former San Jose Police Chief Joseph McNamara, who is now a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution, was aghast at the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department's approach: "It's just incredible to think they were spending all that money to help criminals evade being deported," he said. ... "There's a real debate going on nationally in police circles, but in almost every large city I know of, police departments have the same attitude: We have to work with these communities; we can't have them viewing the police as the enemy because then you get this 'Don't snitch' policy," McNamara said. ... San Francisco's "city of refuge" policy arose in the 1980s when the United States was backing the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala and didn't recognize most of the refugees from those countries as having legitimate asylum claims. ... Federal law doesn't require local governments to report illegal immigrants, but ICE officials encourage local and state law enforcement to collaborate. The Immigration System: Poverty for ProfitAlex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., July 6, 2008 What we have seen during the last thirty years of massive out of control immigration is the height of social policy irresponsibility. Our growth has outstripped the ability of our schools, hospitals, job market, or natural resources to support. During the last thirty years of irresponsible growth we have watched as our schools and hospitals have collapsed under the load. We have watched as the middle and lower classes lost decent wages. Average american families are now working twice as hard to borrow the money they need to survive. What wed have seen during the last thirty years is the systematic stripping down of our political, economic, natural, and social infrastructures. The benefits and profits of this great pillaging of our country, this massive unfunded, unsupported destruction of our infrastructure has gone straight to the top levels of our corporate elite. The history of Gavin Newsom in SF is a tale of how our Corporate Elite directly sponsors the careers of "our" politicians. As for the sanctuary policy itself, it is a farce on its face. All of the Mexicans in the US are here for naked economic reasons. There is no legitimate case for Mexican sanctuary in the US. If you want to serve the rich, do it in your own country. Ours need no more help in stealing the wealth of our nation, and the world. All of the arguments that the supporters and protectors of illegal immigration--from all their whining about how NAFTA, a democrat party deal, caused poverty that drives the crimigration to the US, to some supposed human "right" to work cheap for American Corporations--all assume that achieving American Citizenship is dependent on Economic Service to our Corporate Elite. It is not, and all of those who believe that citizenship can be granted or received based on how much they make the boss are deeply mistaken.
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topic Costs of Crimigration Building 1]Alarm grows on (foreign)kids' dental health 2] SF Chron defends the source of Crimigrant Crime: Illegal Immigration. analysis feature: Are the occupation of Iraq and LA the same thing? 1)The Immigration System: Poverty for Profit 2) The Republicans: Be a Slave or Get Out Program. 3) Moron Democrats plan: Stay, be a Slave, and Get a Drivers Licence. 3) Democraps and Repugnants agree on cheap, state subsidized crimigrants for their corporate sponsors 4) Immigrants: weapon of the rich against Poor Americans: The Foot will stay on your neck.
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