This is different situation. This FR thread below, sounds what you are on about. If this illegal immigrant problem isn’t fixed at all levels, NOTHING will be. “Martin Memorial Center in Stuart, chartered a plane to take Luis Alberto Jimenez back to his native Guatemala. An illegal immigrant, he had cost the hospital more than $1 million after a car accident left him in a coma.” Facing ever-increasing financial losses, Miami-Dade’s struggling Jackson Health System has spent $33 million this year alone on caring for undocumented immigrants.
On a quiet street in northwestern Miami, a Jackson nursing home serves 60 undocumented immigrants — some paralyzed, quite a few on ventilators — costing Miami-Dade taxpayers about $318 a day per patient.
``There’s no way to place them anywhere else,’’ says Armand Gonzalez, administrator of the Jackson Memorial Long-Term Care Center.
The cost of their care is part of the reason why the county’s public hospital system is struggling with growing financial losses that border on the disastrous. Losses are expected to escalate to $168 million next year because of South Florida’s unique problems — high numbers of uninsured and high healthcare costs that keep increasing the ranks of the uninsured.
On the national level, the issue of undocumented immigrants has become politically explosive.
Care costs for undocumented immigrants stack up http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332523/posts
South Florida’s problem is not so ‘unique’ any more is it?
“The cost of their care is part of the reason why the county’s public hospital system is struggling with growing financial losses that border on the disastrous. Losses are expected to escalate to $168 million next year because of South Florida’s unique problems — high numbers of uninsured and high healthcare costs that keep increasing the ranks of the uninsured”
Yet so many on this thread will argue that pointing this out is some how not “pro-life”.
They would rather a hospital close, than discuss whether patients who need extreme care and do not pay make the care unavailable to everyone.
Theirs is the Obama plan for limiting healthcare - make it unavailable to many and limited for everyone.
No discussion - only accusations that you want to “kill people because they are poor”.
No discussion, no solutions, only whining about trying to find a way to solve a problem.
I live in the county north of Martin county. I wish more attention was given to the true culprit. The guy who hired this illegal alien in order to avoid the costs of hiring legal workers.
Worker’s comp insurance is required for a reason. By hiring this man the company avoided having to pay the worker’s comp on him. That meant when this man was injured Martin Memorial had to absorb the cost of his care.
MMH is a non profit hospital so they do not have a lot of budget room to provide indigent care. They already provide plenty of that to legal residents.
The case mentioned involved a huge lawsuit. The patient was stabilized before transfer and If memory serves they made sure he would receive adequate care in Guatemala.