House rejects bill requiring hospitals to ask alien status (Neville Chamberlain would be proud)

May 18, 2004 | Associated Press

[StoneColdGOP]

1986, I think. That's when congress passed the the law forcing emergency rooms to accept all patients.

Same as the '86 Reagan amnesty. A duo of REALLY bad ideas.

[StoneColdGOP]

Tell me about it! The only thing that saves my sanity re: this is that I adopted a good, conservative congressman and pretend that he's really my congressman. He's flattered, and I get to forget about Jerry the MOAB. ;)

I've got several great congressmen just a few miles away from me (behind the Orange Curtain), but I choose to think of Tancredo as my adopted congressman. His loud voice on immigration is unmatched in DC.

[StoneColdGOP]

Note: Hilda Solis is a TRUE RED Communist. She had the most left-leaning voting record of anyone when she served in the CA Assembly and Senate, along with old Reds like John Burton. She cares only for advancing Stalinism and the triumph of "La Raza" over the American Republic.

[Not a 60s Hippy]

They are in the process of bankrupting the people and government with social programs, environmental programs and out-right GIVING money to socialist front groups, the UN and foreign countries.

[StoneColdGOP]

I was disappointed that Dana too, voted for the Medicare bill. He's not perfect. He's heard from plenty grassroots folks about it. But at least he got the Congress to go on record like this.,

[StoneColdGOP]

Imagine a session or two of Congress where only ordinary, common-sense citizens got to serve as Reps and Senators for a few years and who couldn't run for re-election (and thus be obsessed with it).

[Xenalyte]

How long ago was your ER work? The last time I was in the ER (for a kidney stone), Thanksgiving 2002, two families brought in their sniffly children - and yes, I did hear them tell the admitting nurse that they were here for head colds.

[StoneColdGOP]

Hopefully, their constituents will shame them for such treachery. I don't expect much from the Dem sell-outs, but MAYBE the Republicans can have some sense whacked back into them, or maybe we can just replace them.

[StoneColdGOP]

Without either of them embracing illegal alien amnesty and bending over forwards for Vicente Fox, a hell of a lot more Republicans would have voted yes and not worried about going against the sentiments of the President.

Of course, they might have already been bought off by big business, so you're right, it may not have mattered. Thank God for cheap lettuce, eh?

[NYC GOP Chick]

1990 or so. Theoretically, they did have to take people with colds and such, because it could possibly be pneumonia or something. But they did turn away people who came in wanting to get varicose vein treatments, circumcisions and stitches removed, etc.

[StoneColdGOP]

Whoops, I stand corrected ;)

[StoneColdGOP]

Appeasement. Accomodating your own undoing rather than standing up against it.

[JustAnAmerican]

"Imagine a session or two of Congress where only ordinary, common-sense citizens got to serve as Reps and Senators for a few years and who couldn't run for re-election (and thus be obsessed with it)."

Now that would be something to see, because it's obvious that most of the vote prostitutes care for nothing else but being reelected. This election cycle is going to be very interesting.

[Senator Pardek]

...circumcisions...????

"But nurse - I have to get it done NOW!" Why the rush?

[StoneColdGOP]

Yeah, but from what I've read the immigration authorities are pretty much told not to do their jobs anywhere but a stone's throw from the border.

Political correctness. Can't piss of the Hispanics, or else they might vote Democrat.

[StoneColdGOP]

Everyone should remember that when the RNC comes calling for donations!

[StoneColdGOP]

Good Lord that IS disturbing!

[DoctorMichael]

Virgil Goode (R, VA), one-of-the-87, Bump.

[Teplukin]

I disagree. If you ask folks for ID, you discourage them from coming to the hospital. And this can lead to delay in becoming aware of crime (i.e. gunshot wounds) and plagues.

[NYC GOP Chick]

No rush. It was a rainy Saturday afternoon, and this woman brought in her 10-year-old son, who looked scared $hitless when she approached the desk and announced that she wanted the kid to have a circumcision.

I brought out a nurse who explained that she had to take him to a doctor and gave her a list of urologists. The poor kid looked *so* relieved when his mom was told that it couldn't be done in the ER! But why do it to a kid at that age?!