This still exists.
To get a green card for example you need to undergo an exhaustive medical exam and can be rejected due to the results.
To get a green card for example you need to undergo an exhaustive medical exam and can be rejected due to the results.
To get my US Green card, all that was required was an HIV test and a standard US doctor's affidavit that I wasn't disabled.
That's a far cry from a "rigorous physical exam".
HIV is also more of a chronic condition as apposed to a public health hazard these days. It's cost of perpetual treatment isn't significantly different from dozens of other conditions or diseases, and the risk to the public is similar to other diseases like Hepatitis.
Anyone have insight that I'm not understanding?
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Edit: elliekelly gave a well-thought out reply below that makes logical sense, even if I disagree with the policy
The price was in the hundreds of dollars in a somewhat poor country.
The doctor was very clear that he could have been refused because of the results he never saw.
It's speculated that STDs are also tested, but as I wrote, he never saw the test results.
I was always under the assumption that immigrants were suppose to benefit the native population. Which in this case they likely wouldn't?
He's not an American, but Stephen Hawking, for example, was a "public charge" whose substantial medical bills were largely covered by the NHS[1] and the cost of his 24-hour nursing care was made possible through grants.
And while Hawking is an extreme example in both the cost of his care and his ability, a determination that someone is "likely to become a public charge" can apply to just about anyone who might find themselves in need of Medicare. An otherwise healthy 20-year-old with a family history of Parkinson's or Alzheimers. Or, to get even more dystopian, an otherwise healthy 20-year-old with a genetic marker for Parkinson's or Alzheimers. The cost of long term care for these diseases is astronomical but I'm certain there are many Parkinson's and Alzheimers patients that have made substantial contributions to society.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/18/nhs-sc... (Written by Hawking himself)
In fact applicants must show the X-Ray upon arrival at the port of entry.
In health care as a care giver we do it this way to see if we have it. I am not sure why they would not do it this way as opposed to a chest X-ray but I am going to go out on a limb and guess you could probably limit or maybe slow down the reaction with antihistamines or some other means I am not sure of where a chest x-ray would be impossible to hide evidence of TB.