[Militiaman7]

How much is spent on illegals?

I doubt if Mexico would drain their treasury caring for sick Americans.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

They won't spend the money to care for poor, sick Mexicans. That's why they come here.

[GaryMontana]

Time for the USA to say.

If you are not a tax paying US citizen you do not get free health care.

If you think you can have an operation or a hospilaization at the expense of the American tax payer YOU ARE WRONG.

No more free medical treatment to illegal aliens.

[BJungNan]

Officials said the potential cuts would strike at the hospitals' ability to deliver services and could cause longer waits in emergency rooms.

Those waits are already as long as 18 hours in some emergency rooms in the Los Angeles area.

San Joaquin General Hospital administrator Steve Ebert estimated that the French Camp hospital stands to lose $2 million to $3 million. The actual amount would depend on how the state distributes the money that remains after any federal cut, he said.

Meanwhile, the State of California has embarked on a $3 million project to remove ice plant used to prevent erosion at Southern California beaches and replace it with native vegitation. The ice plant, not native to the area, has been a fixture of the slopes leading down to the beaches for the past 50 years.