[Enterprise]

It's a tough way to collect all right. But ultimately, if illegals don't pay, hospitals have to close. Society's needs for hospitals to stay open outweigh the needs of illegal aliens to freeload.

[DoughtyOne]

Tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars later... our government still doesn't understand what you're saying. Of course you're right. Now, get some of the pinheads to acknowledge it.

[Penny]

Most hospitals don't close; they simply jack up the price for goods and services on American patients.

Ultimately, we, the taxpayers, are losers. Had hospitals years ago made similar threats, perhaps we wouldn't have the mess we have now, and perhaps jerks wouldn't be claiming "rights" of medical care. I don't recall the Constitution making that claim . . . Good day to you.
Penny

[meyer]

It's a tough way to collect all right.

A better way might be to charge in advance - pay up with cash, credit, or insurance before the service is provided. I suppose that might be a little rough on those that are in really bad shape.

BTW, do they not have hospitals in Mexico?

[FITZ]

And very many of these aren't living here or crossing the border illegally. Many have visitor visas that allow them to go shopping here, they cross the border to use the hospitals here. And another thing ---- many aren't poor, they have assets in Mexico where they live and work --- nice houses filled with servants but those assets can't have a lien put on them like with Americans' assets.

Anyone just mooching off the taxpayers of this country needs their visa taken away or be deported.

[ridesthemiles]

It's a tough way to collect all right. But ultimately, if illegals don't pay, hospitals have to close. Society's needs for hospitals to stay open outweigh the needs of illegal aliens to freeload.

The hospitals are only one source of the drainage. The schools are a bigger one.

Either way, you should pay for what you use. America has been scammed so long by the south of the border illegals, we hardly know where to start cleaning up the mess.