[HiJinx]

Call me a cynic, but...

Congress appropriated much more money this year than any previous year (through the Medicare Reform Bill) targeted specifically at 'border' hospitals to defray the cost of providing health care to illegals. Each state was to receive a portion, further broken down by county, for their medical facilities.

Your slice of the pie is based on the number of non-paying patients you treat and the estimated loss incurred by your facility. In order to arrive at those numbers, you need to do a study of case load and unpaid billed services...which leads to the information we read in this article.

What's going on, here? /sarcasm

[Happy2BMe]

So why was it again we came down so hard on Hillary for her socialized medical programs?

[B4Ranch]

Call you a cynic?

Never, you are a realist. Large difference between the two. A realist has the experience and can recogize facts. A cynic works on their emotions.

[SAMWolf]

Bump

[MoJo2001]

Oh I see now!

It's the "money just grows on trees and we should care for everyone" syndromes.

This "love" for taking care of everyone that breaks our laws to enter is killing us.

[banjo joe]

Here's a good idea... let's bust in to mexico (lack of proper capitalization intended). Let's suck up their social services... apply for every entitlement program in sight... insist they speak English... visit their ER's without even a pretense of payment... get drunk and run their roads while uninsured...

Ahhh, wait... they'd throw us UNDER the jail.

Nahhh... bad idea.

[Brownie74]

Parkland was a good hospital back in the 60's but I wouldn't go near it now. I was there about 3 years ago to visit a friend and it was almost like being in Mexico.

Question. If Bush is letting all these people into America to do jobs Americans won't do then why are hundreds of them standing around on street corners daily looking for work, living in overcrowded conditions, and not paying their hospital bills?

I think somebody is trying to pull the wool over my eyes. [/sarcasm]