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To: WRhine
Any hospital that takes federal dollars, find one that doesn't take Medicare, has to accept any individual who presents themselves at the E.R. doors. If that patient is a citizen of another nation, it makes no difference. The care will be given and if that person has no way to pay it back, they won't be required to.

About five years ago I saw a spot on a lady from France that had come to the United States because she had a bad kidney. Once here she presented herself to a hospital in the United States. If I remember correctly, this happened in Chicago. There she presented herself to an emergency room with severe pain. The upshot was that as a visitor from a foreign nation, she was bumped to the front of the line. She got here replacement kidney while citizens waited. All costs were paid by the government. I believe it was a kidney. I can tell you it is a true story.

My mother was very high up in the Los Angeles county heathcare system nursing structure. She related to us that in 1990 over 90% of all LA County owned hospital births, were to those of illegal alien parents. That amounted to more than 90,000 births.

Once those children are born, they are US citizens. If the parents are poor, the child qualifies for support. The more kids, the more support a family can obtain. I have been told that illegals can no longer get these funds for support of the kids. I have a hard time believing it. I do know at one time they could get the births for free. They could get AFDC payments for support of the children. Once that was arranged they could get housing subsidies. Of course the support for the kids continued until they were eighteen.

I know that the yearly budget for the LAUSD was $9 billion dollars a few years ago. I also know that one third of the students in the LAUSD are the children of illegal immigrants.

You do the math. Hospitals in California almost went broke trying to cover the costs of giving away services for free. Try doing that with your business. I don't care what field you are in, imagine giving away services for free to any illegal that presents themselves to your doors.

How does it make you feel to know that your tax dollars go to pay for this?

486 posted on 01/06/2002 11:59:55 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne, Iceberg
Iceberg, thanks for the ping and the common sense. DoughtyOne...good posts!! All I can think of is how stupid we are when we jealous and want to destroy the object of our jealousy instead of jealousy itself. America is the most beautiful country ever created and it was created by whites, with God's blesings, for whatever reason. Instead of being happy at the example we set and take advantage of the help we freely offer, they want to destroy us!! Color isn't the problem, pride is...
489 posted on 01/07/2002 3:48:32 AM PST by abigail2
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