Hispanics shift hospitals' resources

The Dallas Morning News ^ | Sept. 15, 2007 | JASON ROBERSON

[Dubya]

Last year, for the first time, fully half of Parkland Hospital's patients were Hispanic

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ome argue not enough is being done to tailor care to a group expected to account for nearly 60 percent of the state's population in 30 years.
They say doctors working in Texas should be required to speak Spanish, or at least have a better understanding of the Hispanic culture.

[dragnet2]

They say doctors working in Texas should be required to speak Spanish, or at least have a better understanding of the Hispanic culture.

[Ken522]

Why can’t these “Hispanics” learn english like everyone else? Are they too busy? Or too lazy?

[Dubya]

In San Antonio, the country's largest Hispanic-majority city, Methodist Healthcare System last month became the first and only U.S. hospital to be designated a "Hispanic Healthcare Hospital" by the Diversity Health Care Program of Mexico, a Mexico-based advocacy group for better Hispanic health.

[Maynerd]

There is nothing more expensive than “cheap” labor.

Thankyou agribusiness, landscapers, construction companies, and meat packing plants (just for starters). We are paying for your profits.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is what Political Correctness has brought us to.

[nmh]

NO!

It’s the Hispanics that need to learn, speak and understand ENGLISH!

Do you realize how much this will cost YOU to have others trained to learn a FOREIGN language?

[nmh]

NO!

It’s the Hispanics that need to learn, speak and understand ENGLISH!

Do you realize how much this will cost YOU to have others trained to learn a FOREIGN language?

[rbg81]

Something tells me that I went to that hospital with a life threatening injury, and couldn’t speak Spanish, I would bleed to death in the emergency room. And the diversity police would hush it up afterward.

[DoughtyOne]

About all I have to say about that article is, “Read it and weep.”

[OneHun]

This is getting out of hand and it is infuriating!  What's next?  Will the 'Hispanics' whine about why I am speaking English, and why Texas still belongs to USA?  This is America with its own language and culture! We never asked for their language or culture, and no one invited them here!

 

[Old Professer]

[nyyankeefan]

NO! It’s the Hispanics that need to learn, speak and understand ENGLISH!

Wrong...the illegal Hispanics need to go home!!!!

speak spanish in their own country!!!!

[nyyankeefan]

NO! It’s the Hispanics that need to learn, speak and understand ENGLISH!

Wrong...the illegal Hispanics need to go home!!!!

speak spanish in their own country!!!!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Thankyou agribusiness, landscapers, construction companies, and meat packing plants (just for starters). We are paying for your profits.

Don't forget to thank every President and Congress all the way back to JFK. The border hasn't been controlled since the 1950's.

[dforest]

There is nothing more expensive than “cheap” labor. Thankyou agribusiness, landscapers, construction companies, and meat packing plants (just for starters). We are paying for your profits.

That is what they were hoping for.

The taxpaying US citizens get to do all the paying for the cheap labor that business just doesn't want to do.

[Dubya]

[DuncanWaring]

There is nothing more expensive than “cheap” labor.

Except maybe for "free healthcare".

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Something tells me that I went to that hospital with a life threatening injury, and couldn’t speak Spanish, I would bleed to death in the emergency room.

The last time I visited an Emergency Room (in a California hospital) I sat in the waiting room for two hours with a three-inch long, half-inch wide gash in my wrist that was so deep I could watch my tendons functioning, this while family after family of Mexicans shuffled their children past me to have earaches and upset stomachs attended.

[chessplayer]

“ome argue not enough is being done to tailor care to a group expected to account for nearly 60 percent of the state’s population in 30 years.”

So in 30 years, for all intents and purposes, Texas will once again belong to Mexico. And the remaining 49 states will still have to foot the bill to take care of them.