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Mexico refuses to treat american citizen without medical insurance
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| Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004
| Theresa Freed
Posted on 10/05/2004 9:33:52 AM PDT by crushelits
Tragic Trip
Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004
After a fall of more than 40-feet, Mexican medical teams refuse to help a Kansas man. It was a trip to discover his heritage but instead turns tragic.
The 23-year-old was going to Mexico to meet his birth father for the first time. He had been living with his adopted parents his entire life in Newton.
Many people take for granted the quality of emergency medical care in the United States. Its one mistake a Newton family will never make again.
Its a lesson about health care that 21-year-old Olivia Sanchez learned the hard way. Olivia and her 23-year-old brother Ricardo recently traveled to Mexico to meet their biological family. A Newton family adopted them at the ages of 6 and 8.
During the trip, the brother and sister went swimming at the familys ranch. Thats when Ricardo started climbing a cliff.
I was watching him go up and down the rocks, says Olivia Sanchez. He made it up once, then he came back down. Then he went back up and it was the second time that he fell.
Ricardo plummeted 40-feet to the ground. He was rushed to a Mexican hospital with severe head injuries. The physicians would not treat him, because he didnt have health insurance.
When you have a head injury, those first few hours are real critical and it seems like we got the information too late, says Greg Sanchez, Ricardos father.
Ricardo was eventually transferred to another hospital, where he was put on life support and then a week later died.
Its a tragedy that the family says shouldve never happened.
The United States federal law mandates access to emergency care regardless of the patients ability to pay.
Anybody thats thinking about going on a trip over there, Id think twice again about it, says Greg Sanchez.
Family say Ricardo was a very caring and loving man. He had plans to marry his fiancé in just a few years. A funeral will be held this Friday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Newton. The burial will follow at St. Marys Cemetery.
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TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: aliens; american; citizen; healthcare; insurance; medical; mexico
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To: ladyrustic
What a repulsive thing to say. It may be repulsive, but he is right. My son always has available medical care insurance and keeps cell numbers and information in his pocket.
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posted on
10/06/2004 2:56:45 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(Truth, Justice and the Texan Way)
To: smonk
as long as she has the checkbook, she can prevail
I told one outfit to go ahead and post it to my credit report till they gag on it. Eventually, they reversed the charges, after telling me they could not do so for 8 months.
The fact that someone attempts to run a scam on you is not the same as you "authorizing treatment," and credit card companies are, like I am, lazy.
I kept telling them that this was how they were earning the service charges, by verifying the phony charges. They kept telling me that was MY responsibility, and I kept telling them that this was incorrect until they had the money. Until then, it is YOUR responsibility.
She may have to negotiate a settlement, since she did agree to some type of treatment, but until she actually pays the bill, she holds the cards.
82
posted on
10/06/2004 3:04:22 PM PDT
by
chronic_loser
(Yeah? so what do I know?)
To: Servant of the 9
If you wouldn't make better arangements, then yes, I would leave you by the dumpster. What about a mugging victim with a life threatening condition? A bad guy has shot or knifed him and stole his wallet. Would So9 want him to receive emergency treatment or just be left by the dumpster?
To: Rider on the Rain
If you wouldn't make better arangements, then yes, I would leave you by the dumpster.
What about a mugging victim with a life threatening condition? A bad guy has shot or knifed him and stole his wallet. Would So9 want him to receive emergency treatment or just be left by the dumpster?
Life is neither perfect nor fair.
Sometimes bad things happen to good people, but the alternative, "free" government care, is infinitely worse.
So9
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posted on
10/07/2004 10:11:20 AM PDT
by
Servant of the 9
(Screwing the Inscrutable or is it Scruting the Inscrewable?)
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