SO—Who makes up the difference?
Our local hospital had to close due to the burden of illegals not paying. Now, the closest hospital is over an hour away. There is some funding of sorts for a clinic but it’s been hit and miss being only open part time and having rotating doctors coming in from elsewhere so they know nothing about their patients’ history.
I don’t like govts. taking MY money and spending it on others. I especially don’t like politicians spending MY money on illegals for ANY reason.
Hey McLame, ya still trying to push amnesty for illegals?
Moron.
Instead of footing the bill for illegal aliens, perhaps it would be in our best interest if American citizens just ‘become’ illegal aliens too, with no traceable identities. What we don’t get for free, we can skip out on paying for, (hospital bills, credit cards, mortgages, car loans, etc.) simply by buying another new ‘identity’.
Let it expire.
When a few hospitals go belly-up from the cost of treating the illegals, more people will demand immigration control.
Treat all emergencies and then deport all illegals immediately. I think you will find the emergency room visits would cease.
Socialism at its worst - subsidies that support services for criminals are disgusting and morally repugnant.
Kaiser-Permanente inthe DC area has solved this by opening up “urgent care” centers for members. These centers are pretty much ERs under a different name. It looks like they will close most, if not all, of their emergency rooms, which have to, by law, accept whoever comes, and replace them with these urgent care centers. All of the uninsured will have to go to other places that still have emergency rooms.