Mexican medics take sick to U.S.

Washington Times ^ | December 12, 2002 | Jerry Seper

[sarcasm]

Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care or emergency-room services in their country to facilities in the United States, where their treatment is mandated by federal law, authorities said yesterday.

The border crossings have been reported from Brownsville, Texas, to Douglas, Ariz., and involve Mexican ambulance companies whose drivers have been instructed by hospital officials in Mexico to take ailing and uninsured patients to the United States, the authorities said.

[bert]

I’ve heard on the street that at least four emergency patients brought across the border from Mexico to American hospitals received treatment and returned to Mexico. All had surgical scars and when examined by Mexican physicians learned that a kidney had been removed.

[devolve]

TIJUANA    TAXI 

[nicmarlo]

BUILD THE FENCE.........NOW!

[Mamzelle]

Usually ambulances have to call ahead to a hospital, so the ER can prepare...wonder what the procedure is with these transfers? Do the vehicles just show up cold?

And they have to cross over by bridge...

[nicmarlo]

Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care or emergency-room services in their country to facilities in the United States, where their treatment is mandated by federal law, authorities said yesterday.

Did you know about THIS???????????

[Wolfie]

Can votes from illegal immigrants be worth this kind of lunacy?!

Of course not. But campaign donations from those hungry for cheap labor certainly can.

[Czar]

"Did you know about THIS???????????"

No.

Outrage piled on outrage. It just never ends.

[nicmarlo]

It’s incredible....unbelievably incredible.

[Let's Roll]

“Is that all we’re good for? To be exploited?”

Yep - just one giant ATM machine. And then some *sshole at the UN or other NGO will slam us for being so selfish!

[ECM]

lol, wow—I was wondering why I was getting responses to a thread from the stone age! :)

[traumer]

Send the hospital bills to Ted Kennedy

[dennisw]

Yeah this is old. I was saying the same thing back then

[B4Ranch]

Do you know what YOU would be told in a Mexican hospital if you showed up without any cash or your wallet?

“We’re sorry, but unless you can provide three forms of ID, proving your Mexican citizenship, we won’t provide any treatment for your respiratory distress. Sorry, just sit there and suffocate. Try not to make a mess. Thank you!”

[B4Ranch]

Weren’t you aware of this? You’re kidding me, right?

[B4Ranch]

>I’m afraid Bush & the GOP has painted themselves into a corner on the border issue.<

No, I’m afraid Bush & the GOP has painted you and me into a corner on the border issue. We both know that eventually they are going to win this fight. You and I are going to be the cost providers while they turn the US into a 3rd world rathole.

[Captainpaintball]

LINE THE BORDERS WITH NUCLEAR WASTE!!!

[Borax Queen]

Yes, unfortunately, I knew.

[potlatch]

Nice graphics devolve.

[nicmarlo]

You did?

And you daren’t tell me?

por que????

: )

[Borax Queen]

lol

Es too much.