Posted on 01/26/2024 9:55:34 PM PST by 11th_VA
The Denver hospital system is turning away local residents because it is flooded with migrant visits.
Denver Health CEO Donna Lynne warned the center is in a crucial moment due to unexpected costs associated with immigrant visits.
What I think is not being said is that Denver Health is at a critical, critical point and that we need to take this up in 2024,” Lynne told the Denver City Council, according to the Denver Post.
Eight-thousand migrants from Central America accounted for approximately 20,000 visits in 2023. Denver Health asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide funds for immigrants’ medical costs. The state and federal governments aren’t reimbursing the hospital, which spent $136 million for patients who didn’t pay.
Beckers Hospital Review notes CEO says ‘It’s Going to Break Denver Health’
The health system is overwhelmed with care costs for uninsured patients, particularly migrants — 36,000 of whom have arrived in Denver since December 2022, according to The Denver Post.
“Where do you think the migrants are getting care? They are getting care at Denver Health,” Dr. Lynne said at a Jan. 9 finance and governance committee meeting. Her remarks were reported by CBS Colorado on Jan. 12.
Denver Health has treated more than 8,000 migrants who lack legal documentation in the past year, totaling about 20,000 visits, according to Steven Federico, MD, a pediatrician at the health system.
The majority of these patients are coming from Venezuela and arrive needing treatment for chronic and communicable diseases after making the difficult journey.
Eric Lavonas, MD, an emergency physician at Denver Health, expects the situation to worsen as subzero temperatures sweep across Colorado, exposing unhoused, uninsured populations to frostbite and hypothermia. In 2020, the health system had about $60 million in uncompensated care costs. Last year, costs sprung to $136 million, a quarter of which came from caring for non-Denver residents.
Due to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, Denver Health cannot turn patients away from the emergency room and has resorted to other cost-cutting measures. The system closed 15 of its 78 inpatient beds for substance misuse and mental health treatment and did away with planned salary increases.
Denver Health lost $35 million in 2022, and 2023 could have been worse had the system not received some outside help, according to the Post...
Always flooding emergency rooms over BS like a damn hangnail, then stiffing the bill.
Don’t worry the new immigration bill only allows 5000 in a day.
2.5 visits by the average invader? They must have LOTS of untreated problems in the old country and are getting all that deferred maintenance taken care of.
“”Denver Health has treated more than 8,000 migrants who lack legal documentation in the past year””
“in the past year?”
That is one (1) day in Texas.
O. N. E.
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It’s not just Denver. This is happening in all major cities in the U.S. Wake up people, go to your local ER and take a look around. What do you see? All the non-English-speaking border-jumping, baby-making parasites getting health care on your dime, you the stupid weak ignorant American taxpayer. And they are laughing at you while they shove you out of the way. And you think their screaming babies are so cute. After all, it’s not who we are, is it??—to deny anyone anything!
Just before the media and weak politicians pushed Obamacare onto the American people in the dead of night in Congress, they propagandized about the “families without healthcare” and the strain on emergency rooms for what should be two or three preventive visits to a family doctor first. All part of the plan.
Now will US citizens have to go without hospital care due to the swarms of illegals stacked up in the halls on the floor?
RE: then stiffing the bill.
First the hospital is stuck and then the taxpayers and the citizens who pay for their own insurance plans-—now going way up in costs.
One memory of patients waiting for service. The Black Panther leader and convicted murderer Huey P. Newton once was shot and held the blood in with his hands, sitting on the hospital corridor floor because he didn’t have a California Health System card. Pre-internet age so another Panther had to go to get a record at home to get his treatment started. He made it just fine.
You just lay in a gurney in the hallway, that’s all …
Note to sanctuary jurisdictions:
You may want to consider fully the implications of your stance with regard to harboring illegal immigrants before going down that path.
What are they crying about? They are a sanctuary city.
The comments are interesting, but about half plainly are in need of a couple hundred busses of additional invaders. They don’t get it yet
In colour revolutions, chaos and over-running systems are meant for achieving maximum chaos...then they gain permission (”Just DO SOMETHING!”) create the overwhelming response to take total control.
https://archive.org/stream/RulesForRadicals/RulesForRadicals_djvu.txt
Cloward and Piven’s scheme to overwhelm America and break it down is working out beautifully. There are a lot of evil actors...Soros, Schwab, Gates, Obama etc, with the theoretical framework of Marx, Gramsci, and other assorted devils.
I don’t know if it’s too late to save us but feel that it might be. God help us all!
Texas should secede - there’s plenty room there for half the US population
If illegals are having an emergency in the US then how come they are not fleeing from there?
Thanks for the reminder but I place that Rules For Radicals book in the tradition of Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde-—horror.
Coming for a long time now and accelerating.
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