September 18, 2009
Notes

Salud

WELLINGTON, CO - SEPTEMBER 16:  A migrant farm worker from Mexico picks spinach on September 16, 2009 near Wellington, Colorado. Salud Family Health Centers sends a mobile clinic to farms throughout northeastern Colorado to serve the migrant population, most of whom are immigrants with little other access to basic health care. While funding of health care for undocumented workers has become a controversial topic in the health care reform debate, the federal government already funds basic care for many such workers through grants to non-profit clinics, which serve one of America's most vulnerable, uninsured populations.  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

I offer more great work from Getty’s John Moore using the single still image to frame the most politically uncomfortable questions.

But first, some context. In the foreground, we see a migrant farm worker from Mexico picking spinach near Wellington, Colorado. Beyond is a mobile clinic that visits farms in the northeastern part of the state serving immigrants who have little other access to health care. States the caption:

While funding of health care for undocumented workers has become a controversial topic in the health care reform debate, the federal government already funds basic care for many such workers through grants to non-profit clinics, which serve one of America’s most vulnerable, uninsured populations.

Thus the question: If a health bill, in the form of an “ode to the Republicans,” passes the Congress and all pipelines to services for illegal (and even less-than-five year legal) immigrants are cut off, does the next version of this story offer men simply keeling over in “our” spinach?

(image: John Moore, Wellington Colorado. September 16, 2009)

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