Posted on 11/10/2005 11:51:19 AM PST by JZelle
Some health care officials are urging local governments to start providing health care services for the region's illegal aliens -- or get ready for more outbreaks of contagious diseases like tuberculosis. "Unless you're able to do something about the immigration issue, if you cut services to all undocumented ... that's very stupid," said Francisco Semiao, education and outreach coordinator at George Washington Cancer Institute. "You're going to have a bunch of people walking around with who knows what, spreading Lord knows what," he said. "They ride the Metro seven days a week, and you do the math." Although most local hospitals said they do not record a patient's legal status, some physicians said the fear of deportation deters many illegals from seeking treatment in emergency rooms.
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And I've worked all this time to accomplish just that and only accomplished the latter. Oh my!
10,000 dollars of medical care or a $500 plane ticket and a 500 dollar parachute?? We really need to get rid of this 3rd world trash entering our borders.
They don't want to be third world. It's what they had where they came from. The Peruvian experiment of property registration proved that. They would happily be capitalists of the first order.
It's the "Official Friday Silliness Thread". Have BJClinton put you on his ping list. You'll enjoy it. Just a thread to be silly on.
A neighboring county had to shut down it's only clinic and hospital because the illegals bankrupted it.
Close the freakin' borders already!
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We deleted our life savings to pay for a treatment insurance didn't at that time pay for. The hospital insisted we pay up front because.... the woman from South America that my doctor referred the month before failed to pay her bill. They also *sort of* admitted to raising the price and charging for all extras even if I didn't get them (which I didn't). I've yet to get so much as a thank you card from that scumbag for paying her damned hospital bill and not being able to afford any further treatment myself.
...unless, of course, they hire illegals to do their housecleaning, babysit their children, and cook their food. Airborne diseases don't know from elite. And considering their callous disregard of the rest of society, I'd say it'll serve them right.
Any politician who hires illegals should be publicly tarred and feathered (I'm being nice). They should be hiring some out of work Americans instead, but of course I forget that they're all above the laws that we peons are supposed to obey...
Park a migra-green van in front of the ER and shut down the operation.
A poster on these boards wrote that the medics at a hospital wondered what was going on since the usual crowd of Mexicans wasn't flocking in to their ER. A little while later someone looked outside and saw a green van illegally parked near the entrance. Evidently the illegals saw it also and stayed away.
The medics had a running joke that whenever they wanted a break from the crowds, they'd park a green van outside.
A tragi-comedic commentary on this out-of-control situation.
"if you cut services to all undocumented ... that's very stupid," "
And letting them stay here is even MORE stupid!
It's happening already and still the govt. does nothing.
Me too! BTTT
How do propose forcing illegals to integrate?
Someone needs to start archiving articles with quotes, from people in positions of authority, like this one. Then, when the next epidemic hits, a class action suit needs to be filed against the DHS and the CDC for failure to protect the country against known biological threats introduced by illegal immigrants. If at that point no action is taken to restructure our responses to illegal incursions, it will be time to "water the tree of liberty."
Great idea! I'll write a letter to the hospital administrator and suggest it.
From what I've heard, the illegal alien crowds are even worse at the L.A. County hospitals. Many ERs in southern Cal have already closed their doors because of this mess.
You should see the overcrowded schools here. American kids are being cheated, yet more "school bonds" were approved by the voters so the burden of the new schools to be built will be placed on the shoulders of homeowners.
L.A. is a "sanctuary city", and there's probably 2 or 3 million illegals who take advantage of that (and of everything else).
California has truly been invaded/colonized, and many lifetime California taxpayers are moving out of here. Those of us who have to stay for various reasons are paying a high price. I'm waiting for the politicians to wake up, but that won't happen in my lifetime.
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