Testimonial on Healthcare Costs for Illegal Immigrants

Hospitals are only required to stabilize a patient - then it's perfectly legal to give them a bandaid and a boot in the @$$ out the door. That's all. Most hospitals DO have charity programs - they are funded by the government, private sectors, and often times through the gracious giving of the health care givers at those facilities. Those funds, however, only go so far.. And they go VERY fast. A five minute emergency room visit (the doctor just shined the flashlight in the eyes, told me to go home to take some benedryl, and sent me home) cost... no joke.. $400. For FIVE minutes. On another occassion, I was admitted for three days for an infection. Despite having an IV in my hand, having torn ligaments in my foot, and barely being able to lift my head, I had to give myself my OWN sponge baths (which was just a soapy washcloth, nothing to rinse with) and later discharged. My papers said I was leaving in an ambulance - Instead I was walking out the door on those torn ligaments .. No ride home. No crutches. I walked one mile home in several feet of snow. I'm certain that you've heard the stories of the people getting kicked out of the ambulances and taxi-cabs just after leaving the hospital! When I visited the doctor some time ago, there was a woman there at the same time as me who didn't speak English. When they finally made it understood that they needed her ID and medical/insurance card... This woman produced several drivers licenses all with her photo and different names, and 11 different medical cards. I have a serious problem with this! I have a blood disorder that requires a combination of certain medications. With this combination of medications, I can live and work productively. Without the combination, I'm lucky if I can get mobile enough to clean my house. I was born and raised here, and my family has been born here since 1620. The government wants to save $800 a year by cutting out my medications from medicaid that would allow me to be a productive citizen (and then be non dependent on medicaid!), and then giving people who broke laws coming into this country and continue to break laws the care that they need. I'm all for humanity - but there are laws and rules, and if people are going to break them, they shouldn't get rewarded in the process, pure and simple. If an American citizen used false identification to gain access to medical care, they would be fined, sued, and probably imprisoned - as well as cut off from certain government funds and programs. So why should someone who can't even tell the truth about their name and where they came from be allowed to carry on. I had a neighbor once who had 11 identities, and those are just the ones that I know of. $85 and they could "buy a new life", carried to them from Chicago via UPS... so medical care wasn't the only thing that she was managing to rip off... Part of the solution is simple: Upon realizing that someone is likely an illegal immigrant, law should require that these facilities report these people to INS and send their butts packing. That would really help take care of the problem! That's all the compassion those who come here illegally are going to get from me.

I agree with you 100 percent. In the case of illegals who steal other people's identities, this is a completely different situation. The ones who do this are clearly criminals and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The fact that our government doesn't seem to care about identity theft committed by illegals is mind boggling to me. The problem is people are too concerned with hurting someone's feelings or being politically incorrect. No concern for right or wrong. If you or I do something, we're imprisoned, but if an illegal does it, your a racist if you arrest them. It's insanity! In my post, I didn't mean to suggest that this illegal activity is okay with me. I just meant that many of these people are really hurting and are just struggling to make ends meat. Many of them are innocent children who have done nothing wrong. I was just thinking about these pour souls. I think there should be stricter penalties for those who thumb their nose up at our laws. You are caught stealing someone's identity, you should be either incarcerated or shipped back to your home country. If you are a criminal you should be shipped back or face prison. Identity theft is not a small matter. How come if you or I were to commit a DUI we are arrested and face prison but an illegal does this and they are let go? People need to understand, this is not about racism. It is about discrimination. Discrimination against American citizens. We deserve justice and when illegals get special protection this is wrong. All people should be treated equally. This is only fair.

zoey7879 Thank you for an excellent comment. I can just imagine your frustration.

thanks again and dont look like to many people looked at it hmmmmmmmmmm. Go figure put something out there that needs to be seen and no on looks!

You are very welcome. It is the same video as in your email but I had to do some searching to find it in a different source.