[janetgreen]

My friend is a hospital administrator, and she told me that Mexicans (probably both legal and illegal) are flooding the emergency rooms because they know they can get free treatment. She says they go the the E.R. for even very minor problems because they know they won't be turned away like they might be at a doctor's office. She says that they absolutely misuse emergency rooms, and of course none of them pay a cent, and that's one of the reasons that some hospitals are closing.

[For_God_and_Country]

They also use the Emergency Medical Services as a taxicab to the hospital. I'm an EMT for a Volunteer ambulance corps and often we are called to the lower income areas of our treatment base for what we call "bus rides", we have to by law transport them to the hospital when they have a headache or a hangnail..

[calawah98]

Hi Janet,
A month and half ago, here in Skagit County, Washington State we had an out break of whooping cough. Every one knows that when a baby is born legally they get shots for this so where did it come from? Illegals whose children have not had the shots in their country. The county had to order from the government the necessary shots to give to children who had not had them. I haven't seen any thing lately in the newspaper about this, so do not know how many new cases have developed.