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Hospitals Stuck With Illegal Immigrants, Uninsured ‘Permanent Patients’ at Massive Cost
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Posted on 01/05/2012 2:46:10 AM PST by South40

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1 posted on 01/05/2012 2:46:11 AM PST by South40
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*smiles*.......look into how many are “stored” in US mental hospital and at what cost


2 posted on 01/05/2012 2:50:16 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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This is why our hospitals are closing; less Americans will have real access to healthcare by the end of Obama’s one-term rule, despite all of us having “free” healthcare. I guess by “free healthcare” he meant we could all access WebMD from the local library...


3 posted on 01/05/2012 2:54:47 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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...and if they get released from a cookie farm.....

Illegal immigrants do not qualify for Medicaid, almost ensuring their stays at mental health hospitals could be an average of 25 days longer than other patients because they cannot easily be discharged to assisted living facilities or group homes after they are declared mentally stable

...not deported, but sent to a government paid home that is suppose to be for citizens

4 posted on 01/05/2012 2:59:56 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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....read about the illegals in Mental Institutions a few years back costing the citizens of NJ 100 MILLION a year...there’s over two hundred in Jersey alone


5 posted on 01/05/2012 3:02:58 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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paramexicansites
6 posted on 01/05/2012 3:09:41 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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Just legalize them. That will fix it. /s


7 posted on 01/05/2012 3:34:12 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Santorum..., are you giving it some thought? I knew you would.)
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At massive costs to those of us WITH insurance, you mean.


8 posted on 01/05/2012 3:35:55 AM PST by rintense
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Absolutely not different than the inner-cities where 4 generations have had free medical care, just by going to the Emergency Room with runny noses, and drug overdoses....Medicaid (TAXPAYERS) are stuck with the costs, and what isn’t covered is made up in charges to Insured Patients.


9 posted on 01/05/2012 3:42:47 AM PST by traditional1 (Free speech for me.....not for thee)
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This is why our hospitals are closing

Yes, it is. The hospital with an ER that was closest to my house closed years ago due to the millions it had been losing each year treating ILLEGAL aliens. Now there is but one hospital serving twice as many people and it is so overrun with ILLEGALs and other patients the average wait for non-life threatening illness is 12 hours.

Cost is one thing. But when timely and needed medical care is being adversely affected by the ILLEGAL hordes something must be done. Unfortunately, no one has the knads to take on the issue so it just keeps getting worse.

10 posted on 01/05/2012 3:47:54 AM PST by South40 (Just say NO to pro-ILLEGAL alien RINOS!)
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How many years do they need to be there before noot declares them legal.
11 posted on 01/05/2012 4:00:50 AM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and nervous supporters.)
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Some of us are advocating an end to that too.

I don’t support half a trillion dollars in welfare each year. Well, perhaps I do, but I want it to stop.


12 posted on 01/05/2012 4:02:02 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Santorum..., are you giving it some thought? I knew you would.)
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Deport them or treat them as mexico would a Honduran... just shoot the bastards... either way is fine with me. They are enemy combatants IMHO.

LLS

13 posted on 01/05/2012 4:25:22 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS!)
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It would be very difficult and positively unchristian to fight this battle at the hospital level. It absolutely has to be resolved at the border level and at the state and federal govt. level.


14 posted on 01/05/2012 4:48:25 AM PST by RC one (Scorch the earth Newt. Scorch it.)
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Hey, I got a great idea! Let's import as many illiterate people from third world hell holes as we possibly can, give them low skill jobs under the table to keep American teens and blue collar workers idle, pay them to breed reliable Democratic voters and require hospitals to treat them for free whenever they show up. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? I mean we are guaranteed to have an electorate that is bone-idle, illiterate and looks to the government for all its needs. It'll be utopia.
15 posted on 01/05/2012 4:54:35 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Ceterum autem censeo, Obama delenda est.)
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This is why the hospital where my wife is a nurse is cutting staff. They need to ‘cut costs’, because they have a large percentage of the patient population that is here illegally, cannot pay, and that the hospital insists must be treated. Many of the illegals get treated for things my insurance would laugh at - but THEY get it.

Of course, how they will go on treating more and more patients for free by cutting staff is a bit problematic. Maybe someday there will be 700 beds and one nurse...


16 posted on 01/05/2012 5:04:13 AM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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To: traditional1

Not just the inner cities, but out here in the boonies of Kentucky too. People brag about their “medical card” like it’s an entitlement and use the ER like a free clinic. They get their “free” antibiotics & painkillers and take a “free” cab back home.

I have a $150 ER co-pay, and have to meet my $1000 deductible...so in my house no one goes to the ER unless they’re dying.


17 posted on 01/05/2012 5:07:09 AM PST by ItsOurTimeNow ("Go now. Run along and tell your Xerxes that he faces Free Men here...not slaves.")
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We’re the stupid ones for paying for insurance and co-pays. Half of our bill is for someone else who didn’t pay.

This is not new. Twenty years ago nearby hospital closed because of this so now there isn’t a hospital in the entire county. Too bad for US citizens in need of emergency care.


18 posted on 01/05/2012 5:17:15 AM PST by bgill (The Obama administration is staging a coup. Wake up, America, before it's too late.)
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Send them home express delivery.


19 posted on 01/05/2012 5:17:54 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I’m wondering where in the constitution does is require citizens to pay unlimited medical costs for “permanent patients” in this country illegally?


20 posted on 01/05/2012 6:49:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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