Back home, they looked over their medical bills.
They owed Children’s Mercy Hospital $372 for the 16-year-old son’s emergency room visit for an infected foot. The hospital gave them a voucher for free medicine.
They owed Truman Medical Center about $200 for a recent emergency room visit to treat Monroy’s bronchitis. He was trying to set up a payment plan. He missed one day of work. (“I don’t go to work, I don’t get paid,” he said, exhausted, after he’d returned from the emergency room that night.)
Señora Monroy owes the University of Kansas Hospital nearly $800 for earlier visits. The Monroys have agreed to pay $56 a month.
That part of the article is BS! Illegal immigrants do NOT get charged for emergency visits. The hospitals run on social security numbers. Illegal immigrants get put in as 000-00-0000, that is auto cue for illegal immigrant and the govt steps in.
I think half of this article is hokum
http://www.enewscourier.com/homepage/local_story_168201524.html?keyword=leadpicturestory
This is what the hospitals think of amnesty... “If given amnesty and determined legal citizens, they would be eligible for government provided healthcare resources, which would probably have a positive effect on community hospitals,”
Government provided?in other words,taxpayer provided.
Another frightening statistic.......The cost of the medical care of these uninsured immigrants is passed on to the taxpayer, and strains the financial stability of the health care community. Forty-three percent of non-citizens in the United States under 65 have no health insurance, according to FAIR. That means there are 9.4 million uninsured immigrants, a majority of whom are in the country illegally, constituting 15 percent of the total uninsured in the nation in the mid-1990s, according to FAIR.
Now,go to this site and see just how many STATES have a lower population THAN THE UNINSURED ILLEGALS in this country. It's staggering........http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0004986.html
I heard our emergency rooms here in Houston are fast becoming overwhelmed and overburdened to the point that the service may not survive the flood of illegals and ergo, unpaid bills. And of course, hospitals have to go up and up on what they charge those of us that DO pay, to cover those that do NOT pay. It's just swell. We're already paying the highest insurance rates in the land, due to illegal drivers that get in accidents with no license and no insurance. Not to mention the higher crime rate we've developed over the years from illegal immigration.
This 'illegal' immigration has to stop. I don't care how we do it, but we MUST DO IT NOW.
All tax free no doubt . . . or with such minimal taxes the taxpayer provided bennies more than compensate.
I'll bet there are more than a few citizens and legal immigrants in the Kansas City area getting by on $30K per year plus paying this freeloading illegal's tab to boot.