so they're going to layoff staff?...close off units?....this means less care for us....less choice...
I guess if you need a heart transplant just show up there without id and only speak spanish....
[ I guess if you need a heart transplant just show up there without id and only speak spanish.... ]
We should do the heart transplant and then send a bill to the country of origin for 2X-4X the cost of the procedure...
Countries would start patrolling their own borders and immigration more closely...
Do not forget illegals also tie up chairs that Americans want be able to have due from overwhelming number of illegals there for free care
I recall that in 2009 Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta had a Dialysis Unit with a large number of illegals that they had to treat without compensation.
They finally bit the bullet and announced they were closing the dialysis unit. Wails and knashing of teeth. See NY times article
Key quotes:
“Years and years of providing this free care has led Grady to the breaking point,” said Matt Gove, one of the hospital’s senior vice presidents. “If we don’t make the gut-wrenching decisions now, there won’t be a Grady later. Then, everyone loses.”
Some of the Grady dialysis patients have chosen to return to their countries, encouraged by the hospital’s offer of free airfare, cash payments, three months of paid dialysis and assistance in seeking insurance or other long-term remedies. Others are trying their luck in states where Medicaid policies may be less restrictive.
But most remain in Atlanta, taking full advantage of a last-minute offer by the hospital, in response to a lawsuit, to pay for three months of dialysis at commercial clinics. They are hopeful that the reprieve will buy time for the lawsuit to progress or for private dialysis providers to take them as charity cases.
Followup article:
Deal Reached on Dialysis for Immigrants
By KEVIN SACK
Published: September 9, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/health/10grady.html