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To: RobFromGa
Also included in this bill:

Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

Jon Kyl, R-Arizona authored the original legislation to reimburse hospitals, and he persuaded lawmakers to include the money in the $395 billion Medicare bill. He was among a small group of lawmakers who negotiated the controversial bill.


8 posted on 11/22/2003 4:30:14 AM PST by getgoing
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To: getgoing
Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

And the people coming in from Mexico for their free health care don't even need to be older --- this Medicare money is to include children, labor and delivery, injuries they suffered in Mexico --- and the $1 billion is just for the emergency room care --- they still need treatment and rehab after the emergency part is over.

26 posted on 11/22/2003 7:01:25 AM PST by FITZ
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To: getgoing
It's not "undocumented immigrants", it's "illegal" immigrant as in criminal. Please, if we use their PC language it changes the nature of the debate.

If a crook broke into your home would you call him an "undocumented guest"?

Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

96 posted on 11/22/2003 10:30:07 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: getgoing
If a crook broke into your home would you call him an "undocumented guest"?

Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

98 posted on 11/22/2003 10:32:43 AM PST by GOPJ
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To: getgoing
If a crook broke into your home would you call him an "undocumented guest"?

Medicare legislation moving through Congress would give hospitals at least $1 billion over the next four years to cover the spiraling costs of providing emergency services for undocumented immigrants.

100 posted on 11/22/2003 10:33:47 AM PST by GOPJ
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