[buccaneer81]

Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer

Damn, this guy loves drawing a state paycheck. He was the Mayor of Baltimore, then the Governor of Maryland and now the state comptroller. What a hack.

[NormsRevenge]

.. illegals drain health system

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Too bad Arnold didn't steal this guy for his administration instead of the gal from Florida for his budget team.

[KingsKindred]

Surprise, suprise... this is not new news. Every right thinking, tax paying American knows this is the truth. Check any emergency room... But what I find interesting in this article, is that they don't stick with the subject at hand but their approach is change the subject and attack the choice of words he used. Good grief.

[Dubya]

Very good post.

[concentric circles]

Comptroller Schaefer is gonna get a spanking!

Please let us know on this thread who it is that does the spanking. And the screaming and whining, we want to know about that too.

Los Angeles County was calculated to be spending $340 million per year for health care for illegals a couple of years ago. That figure has since gone up.

[Mark17]

(Maryland Comptroller) Schaefer says illegals drain health system

How utterly non PC of him, but he is right.

[Dubya]

He added that it would be a "tragedy" if the country becomes billingual -- English and Spanish speaking.

How True.

[VOA]

(Maryland Comptroller) Schaefer says illegals drain health system

Schaefer could have gotten this figured out about a decade ago.
IIRC, radio-g-d Paul Harvey reported that the reason for the delay in the release
of the plan for "Hillary Care" was...
Hillary played and played and played with the numbers...realizing there was
no way for her (even the most brilliant woman who ever has lived) to get the
system to stay solvent if illegals got health-care.

[rocksblues]

Delegate Victor R. Ramirez, a Prince George's Democrat, called Mr. Schaefer's comments "inappropriate" and said, "I respect him as a politician, but I think the statements were way out of line." Roberto Allen, president of the Baltimore Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, agreed. "It just seems like it's a counterproductive kind of commentary," he said.

A true statement from somebody/anybody always receives this kind of response from liberals.

As an aside my daughter had her first child last week. She was in a 2 person room and her roommate was a Spanish speaking women. Every time I visited the room they had the curtains closed and only spoke Spanish. I was there when the nurse came in to explain the process of taking their baby home. She spoke only English and they responded fine.

The thing that really gets my goat is she told them that in order to take the baby home they would have to have an approved car seat for the baby. They said they did and she said OK we don't have to see it as long as you say you do that will do.

Then when my daughter was leaving they came out to my son-in-laws car to make sure that they had an approved car seat.

Kerry and Edwards are right we live in two different America's!

[7.62 x 51mm]

Picking nits again:

"...Secratary..."

Use a spell checker, moron reporter: Secretary.

[ridesthemiles]

Gee- I am only a lowly Full Charge Bookkeeper, and I have been saying that for about 30+ years. I sure am glad to see that someone with alot more "education" than I have is seeing the light. Hope he beats this drum loud and clear.
The other area the illegals drain the USA system is schools.

[rintense]

DUH.

[Viking2002]

It's amazing how William Scrape-Your-Dollar Schaefer is finally seeing the light in the throes of his geezerhood. He sure as hell didn't when I lived in Maryland and he ran it.

[bayourod]

"Mr. Schaefer said he supports legal immigration but complained that some people who are not citizens do not have "green cards""

If they had green cards they wouldn't get sick or have accidents? Why is the government hiding this medical miracle from us?

I wonder if anyone has informed him that the decision to provide medical services to indigents is a local one, not a federal one.

The federal law only requires that hospital emergency rooms stabilize anyone brought to them without regard to ability to pay. Once they are stabilized they are on their own. States and local hospitals can draw the line anywhere they want. They can decide to treat only American citizens, only city citizens, only legal immigrants, all immigrants, or no poor people at all.

[gubamyster]

ping

[henderson field]

It's especially sad when people who are struggling to pay their own family's $1100-a-month health premium are forced to pay for the health coverage of others.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Maryland Comptroller William Donald Schaefer said yesterday that illegal aliens drain health care resources

Our cities, hospital ERs and social services are all but choked off, all that's missing are chickens and goats in the waiting room, and this guy just now figured out that millions of illegals are a drain on America?

[Mamzelle]

If all the state of MD is paying is $100M for illegals' care, they're getting off easy. In one year, in one county of Los Angeles, the bill for ER care alone was $300M. That doesn't include the other healthcare bills.

All those employers who have their illegal slaves dump them off at the ER when they're hurt or sick...then let the taxpayers pick up the bill.

Stinking employers. How I'd love to see them in orange suits picking up trash--along with their wives who are too haughty and lazy to swab their own toilets, but instead break the law to do it.

[Mamzelle]

If all the state of MD is paying is $100M for illegals' care, they're getting off easy. In one year, in one county of Los Angeles, the bill for ER care alone was $300M. That doesn't include the other healthcare bills.

All those employers who have their illegal slaves dump them off at the ER when they're hurt or sick...then let the taxpayers pick up the bill.

Stinking employers. How I'd love to see them in orange suits picking up trash--along with their wives who are too haughty and lazy to swab their own toilets, but instead break the law to do it.

[Tijeras_Slim]

I never thought I'd agree with Willie Don, especially since I'm from the "s#ithouse part of the state."