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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
Just to play devils advocate.
If you are sick and uninsured in the States does everyone think it would be acceptable for that person to drive across the border into Canada and claim refugee status. Once claimed the hearing is often three years in the future, I think they are trying to speed it up for claimants from developed countries. For the next three years should they be given free medical, dental, vision care and prescription drugs only to go through the system, have their claim rejected and be sent back to the states healthy?
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I think this raises a valid point, just not about the health care aspect of it.
If there are places we would never, or rarely accept a refugee claimant from, we should group all of those places together and have all of their claims fast tracked so they get quickly rejected (or accepted in rare case).
Then countries who have a large acceptance rate, like was stated earlier - 90% for Somalia could be kept in the regular queue and be accepted at the normal rate.
Then you don't have so many people waiting for claims, and you are giving this health care to people who will, quite likely, be staying in Canada and using our health care anyway.
Kind of solves both problems people are having - unless they just don't want refugees and immigrants here, but that's another story.