These people break the law, sneak into this country and basically get any care they desire on the taxpayer's dime. Not a thing is done about it. This is the progressive liberal agenda that is destroying this Country.
More insanity to bancrupt this nation.
Testimony of illegal alien care from 1 Florida hospital ($3 million spent on 2
patients. YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJxmJZXgNI
He should have been airlifted to Mexico where that country’s warm, fuzzy and highly competent social medicine scheme would have cured him in three days.
I had a fellow Freeper scold me not too long ago when I said this was a problem and they told me it was not possible for illegal aliens to get anything more than an aspirin when going to the hospital.
And it costs me almost ten grand for kidney stone treatment. And you bet your ass they are threatening you from day one to pay that bill or else.
The illegals get a free ride as usual.
Doesn’t pay to be a citizen anymore.
I wonder what would happen to an uninsured American who presented with the same condition?
Over 20 years ago I witnessed something similar to this with a Peruvian who lost a foot riding the rails into this country.....after multiple surgeries and reconstructions with prosthetics total cost to NM tax-payers...>500,000K. That was 20 years ago!!
Another illegal I saw use the system was hit by a car while the illegal crossed the street drunk....(driver not cited). Illegal got a bed, 3 hots, pain meds and demanded ice cream and juice when ever he wanted for months on end. He was taken to a rehab, on our dime, for many more months then released. A few weeks later, back again with same scenario. It’s a shame!!!
What home at they sending him to ? They have to keep illegals in the hospitals, they have no insurance, ss# and nursing homes will not accept patients who cannot pay.God did not keep him there, red tape did,that and he refuse to be sent to Mexico, this is why he stayed as long as he did, nobody else wanted him. He has all these family members, to whom he could of been discharged to one of them. This guy abused the system and is why hopsital rates are so high.
A visit to the E.R. can run into the multiple thousands of dollars. It did for me last year when my wife had to be taken there by ambulance.
E.R.s can’t turn anybody away, by law, so the E.R. takes the place of the family physician for many and not just illegals either, though I’m sure they may be the major problem in some parts of the country.
My wife was admitted and was there for 6 days. It was a semi private room and she had the same room mate the whole time she was there and said room mate was still there when she left. During that time period we learned a lot about her, including the fact that she didn’t have a dime to her name nor insurance either and could not have cared less about how her bill would be paid.
She was white, obese and presumably a citizen, she was constantly ordering food at all hours of the night and day and they served what she demanded and when she demanded it. What we never learned was what exactly her problem was - the reason that she was there to begin with. The only hint we got was “nerves”, she was constantly demanding and getting sedatives and pain pills. She was still there after my wife left 6 days later.
My wife had surgery when she was there and we have insurance, after our max out of pocket of $1,000 was met, our insurer paid around $180,000. (The E.R. billed separately) I told my wife that we and our insurer paid for her free loader room mate in that $180,000.
Something has to give and I’m sick and tired of it being me.
gallstone pancreatitis is a really lousy disease to get.
A friend of mine, a doctor, died of it years ago...