[spectre]

How many ILLEGAL alien "emergency room" visits are truly emergencies?

I can't wait till I go there for a REAL emergency, and be told I have to suffer for hours because the place is already half full of ILLEGALS getting free treatment.

Oh joy, joy.

[engrpat]

To answer your question: Two days before Christmas my wife injured her knee. We went to the local emergency facility, knee in a ice pack, and waited 4 hours to be seen and actually didn't get out for a total of 7 hours. The waiting room had I would say 15-18 waiting to be seen along with families. Of that there were 2 English speaking people that we encountered. Odds say the others really shouldn't have been there.

[Tammy8]

Already happens all the time; one of our daughters was seriously hurt in a horse accident last year and the ER was full of illegals- none of them seemed hurt to me. I guess border patrol had a fender bender with them in the vehicle. I know BP has to get them checked and the ambulance chasing lawyers swarm the hospital every time things like that happen. I am sure they not only got free medical care; but probably got a settlement of some sort for being in the accident.

The ER doctors around here are not very good, because the good doctors do not want to work ER for free if patients can't pay.