[sickoflibs]

RE :”The group that represents most of the nation’s hospitals and medical providers recently urged President Obama to work with Congress to reimburse them for the monstrous cost of treating illegal immigrants. Federal law requires facilities to “treat and stabilize individuals” regardless of their immigration status, but federal support for the services remains “virtually nonexistent,” according to a letter submitted by the American Hospital Association to the president. This week officials in California, the state with the largest concentration of illegal immigrants, joined the call for federal compensation after revealing that hospitals there spend about $1.25 billion annually to care for illegal aliens. The figure skyrocketed from $1.05 billion in 2007, according to California Hospital Association figures quoted in a local news report. “

I propose a idea a while back to handle this. Hospitals should be reimbursed for this ‘free’ mandated care under the federally mandated requirement but only if they either : Get the patient to identify themselves, or if not possible to get a valid ID they notify the Federal government that they have a ghost resident patient on their hands for them to investigate. Every uninsured (non-paying) patient should have at least one of the following :

1) VALID drivers license complying with REAL ID,
2) passport,
3) Green immigration card
4) valid SS number

Of course the weak link in my idea is having a POTUS that gives a crap, good luck on that : McCain, GWB, Obama forget it.

[jazusamo]

Illegals should only be treated for serious or life threatening issues and the final part of that treatment should be deportation.

[Liz]

Vote-crazed Obama is sucking up to illegals bigtime.

Obama has done everything to get latino votes but don a sombrero and do the Mexican hat dance on the WH lawn.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks sickoflibs.