Patients are spilling out of Parkland

Patients are spilling out of Parkland

Private hospitals shoulder half of indigent burden, study says

09:40 PM CST on Wednesday, December 29, 2004

By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News

Patients seem to be spilling out of the overcrowded public health system in Dallas County into private hospitals, where officials say they are treating more poor and uninsured people in emergency rooms.

A recent study financed by the Dallas County Commissioners Court estimated that 10 local hospitals, including Baylor University Medical Center, Presbyterian Hospital and Methodist Medical Center, had to foot the bill for $285 million worth of uncompensated care for indigent and uninsured patients in 2003. Dallas County taxpayers spent an additional $311 million to care for nonpaying patients who were treated at Parkland Memorial Hospital.

It appears VISA has jumped onto the illegal alien money wagon. What is interesting is the Visa number of $38 billion being sent "home" by illegals. We thought the number was about $30 billion. Mexico's second industry is growing! And undoubtedly the number of illegals living in this country. How does anyone think they are a net contributor to our country???HOW?

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Lou Dobbs Show/CNN/Aired 12/28/04
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And Visa targets immigrant workers in a new ad campaign. But some say the program pose poses a security risk to this country.

PILGRIM: Visa International is launching an aggressive campaign to convince Latin American migrant workers to use plastic to send money back home. Now, Visa hopes to take over some of the money transfer business from companies like Western Union and Moneygram. Critics say using debit cards to transfer money raises new security concerns. Lisa Sylvester has the story.

LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT : Visa, it's everywhere you want to be, and in some places, you may not expect it to be. Visa International is targeting migrant and other workers from Latin America as its new favorite customer. The company is marketing its smart card that works as a prepaid debit card. Workers in the United States can easily transfer money to relatives abroad at a low cost. The banking industry hopes to tap into the remittance payment market that has been growing at an astronomical pace.

MANUEL OROZCO, INTER-AMERICAN DIALOGUE: In 2001, it is total volume of remittances to Latin American was $18 billion, and it grew to $38 billion three years later.

SYLVESTER: Wire services, including Western Union and Moneygram so far have dominated the $38 billion money-transfer market. A recent study found that 86 percent of remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean were cash transfers, 4 percent home delivery, 4 percent bank or credit union deposit, and 1 percent debit or smart card. Not everyone agrees that banking institutions make it easier to send money out of the country. Critics say nearly $40 billion a year exiting the United States is not small change, and leaves less money for some of the poorest U.S. communities. And there's also a potential security risk.

MARK KRIKORIAN, CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES: Immigrant remittances are one of the ways bad guys can transfer money across borders because even though most of that money is completely innocent, people working jobs and sending money home, it can serve as cover for terrorists, other kinds of criminals to move money.

SYLVESTER: But Visa and other credit card companies are charging forward, reaching into one of the few untapped markets.

SYLVESTER: The banking industry is convinced it can capture more of the market because its costs tend to be lower than traditional wire transfers. The bank costs as little as $8 a transfer, using the smart cards, and on the other hand, wire services can cost up to $25 a transfer. Kitty?

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/28/ldt.01.html

“No school system in a major U.S. city,” political scientists Katrina Burgess and Abraham Lowenthal said of Los Angeles in their 1993 study of Mexico-California ties, “has ever experienced such a large influx of students from a single foreign country. The schools of Los Angeles are becoming Mexican.”

By 2002, more than 70 percent of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District were Hispanic, predominantly Mexican, with the proportion increasing steadily; 10 percent of schoolchildren were non-Hispanic whites.

In 2003, for the first time since the 1850s, a majority of newborn children in California were Hispanic.

Mexico is repopulating California, thanks to open borders. A high percentage of these children don't even speak English. The children of California citizens are being shortchanged, and we're paying for it.

You're right, it sure won't happen when the banking industry is in bed with MALDEF. Check out the contributions from Wash. Mutual, etc.

http://ccir.net/REFERENCE/MALDEF-2002-2003.html
Taken from pages 15 and 16 of MALDEF's annual report
[OUR CORPORATE AND
FOUNDATION PARTNERS
PLATINUM PARTNERS: $100,000+
Anheuser-Busch Companies
The Ford Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Sandler Family Supporting
Foundation
Soros Foundation
Washington Mutual

GOLD PARTNERS: $50,000 ú $99,999
America's Charities
California Community Foundation
Center for Law in the Public Interest
The Gerber Foundation
Kaiser Permanente
Levi Strauss Foundation
Marguerite Casey Foundation
The Rosenberg Foundation
The State Bar of California
The State Bar of California
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SILVER PARTNERS: $10,000 ú $49,000
AT&T
Bank of America
BELO Corporation
BP
Bracewell & Patterson, L.L.P
The Bravo Foundation
The California Endowment
The Coca-Cola Company
Fannie Mae Foundation
Ford Motor Company
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BRONZE PARTNERS: $1,000 ú $9,999
AARP
Abbott Laboratories Fund
The Abernathy/McGregor Group
AFL-CIO
The Ahmanson Foundation
AIG Invesment LLC
American Federation of Teachers
Amigas de MALDEF
AOL Time Warner, Inc
Walgreens Company
Wal-Mart Foundation
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Thanks for the link. A couple of things caught my eye. Wells Fargo is a Silver Partner. Yeah, I have a Wells Fargo Visa card. I wanted to drop WF after the boy scout fiasco but I had to keep them because of their location.

Also Belo Corp. is a Silver Partner. Belo owns The Dallas Morning News and WFAA-TV. (ABC Ch.8)

As much as you would like, you can't boycott everybody but I did cancel my subscription to the DMN.

Well, back to the football game(s). Have a Happy New Year.

Having said that brings another thought: we're turning into a 3rd world country at a high rate of speed...

Believe it or not --- there are several curanderos and curanderas in this area --- which is sort of still the USA --- I'm not sure if they're practicing medicine legally or illegally --- but they're quite open and nothing happens to them --- they give injections of whatever, they charge their patients --- but I'm sure it's like everything else--- if you or I were practicing medicine out of our home or apartment we'd be arrested but if you're from Mexico -- anything goes.

....we'd be arrested but if you're from Mexico -- anything goes.

So true. Mexicans are exempt from our laws. Here in Dallas local law enforcement hassels the homeless population endlessly. But, the illegals can hang out on street corners, drink beer, litter, and break other laws and the police just drive by them like nothing is happening.

I've always said that there is one set of laws for us and another set (or lack thereof) for them. Everyone needs to be held equally accountable under the law. If not, we're going to turn into a lawless society.

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