Older news, but I came across this interesting blog entry. (The original article is here)

Am I alone in thinking that a policy that would likely keep illegal immigrants from seeking medical care is a bad idea? This is completely backwards. Public health officials in the county I live in come to your house and watch you take your tuberculosis medication to make sure you're being treated. (and TB is not even that contagious!) You'd think that we would want to make every effort to get everyone with an infectious disease into the system to prevent an outbreak.

Yet another seemingly innocent, yet totally stupid, policy decision.