Sic 'em!!
Posted on 07/23/2004 10:53:34 AM PDT by holyscroller
Hospitals losing millions from non-paying Mexican Nationals are now sending collections agents across the border.
At University Medical Center, both legal and illegal immigrants racked up $16 million in unpaid bills last year. A huge debt, collection agents are now tracking patients down in Mexico to pay.
If patients can't pay, it's written off as charity. If they can afford a payment plan, but refuse, agents inform them the hospital will turn their name over to Immigration and Naturalization and Border Patrol agents.
This can hurt their ability to cross back into the U.S. freely.
Typically, collection agents only recover 8% of what hospitals are owed.
Marj Sisson, UMC Transition Management, says it's still worth it. She says, "Even if we net back half a million dollars, half a million can do a lot."
Hospitals in Bisbee and Yuma are also relying on collection agents to bring back millions of dollars in payments from Mexico.
Here's a better idea, no free healthcare for illegals. I can't get free healthcare & I pay taxes! Support prop 200.
Illegal ping. One small step toward justice. Now if only GW would quit inviting them to Suckerland.
Illegal ping. One small step toward justice. Now if only GW would quit inviting them to Suckerland.
ping
They should pay up front for any services they wish to obtain in the USA. They have their own hospitals and doctors --- but they charge them for services --- to get completely free health care, they've become too accustomed to coming north. Close the border, provide nothing but emergency first aid type care and send them back.
He won't - he doesn't see any of this as a problem as he sits in his ivory tower.
blood from a turnipseed.
good luck collecting.get paid in chickens.
I was hoping they'd just send the bill to the government of Mexico. Lotsa luck collecting from individuals.
the federal law mandating hospitals and physicians who get medicare-medicaid payments to treat illegal aliens needs to be annuled
the federal law mandating hospitals and physicians who get medicare-medicaid payments to treat illegal aliens needs to be annuled
excellent point
Deport them to Crawford, TX.
Do you honestly think our government will allow the hospitals to continue to bill Mexico? I don't. Our government will make the American people pay these bills by hitting us with much higher taxes after the election.
Sic 'em!!
That's the only way to deal with illegal immigration. Until the Mexican government has to start pitching in, there will be no changes. As long as Mexico is allowed to fund its entire corrupt socialist state on the income made by Mexicans in the US without contributing a dime to assist them (in fact, it will not even repatriate Mexican criminals at its own cost), the border will remain out of control.
My feeling has always been that the heat has to be turned up on the Mexican government. Heck, if I lived in Mexico, I'd be crawling across the Rio Grande, too - it's a dysfunctional country, and we've enabled it.
"$30 billion a year flows out of the United States just to Latin America in the form of remittances. There are seven or eight countries in the world that have more than 10 percent of their gross domestic product coming to them in the form of remittances from the United States or countries outside their boundaries, but primarily from the United States; $30 billion alone to Latin America.
Where does this money come from? It comes, of course, from the people who work here; who, if they were not sending that money home, they would be investing it in the communities in which they live. But since they are not, those communities are denied the benefits of that multiplier effect. The jobs are not being created, the economy is not being stimulated in these communities, and the money is going primarily south.
So, I have been thinking about this for a while, and when I saw this report I felt that maybe something could be done in the following manner: We every year send billions of dollars overseas to many countries in the form of foreign aid. Much of this money, as everyone knows, ends up in the hands of corrupt dictators or corrupt governments, even if they call themselves democratically elected, and it oftentimes never, ever, ever gets to the most worthy recipient. So I am going to propose an amendment to the foreign operations bill that says that every dollar that we send in the form of a remittance to some other country will be deducted from the money we send them in the form of foreign aid.
Now, this will be quite controversial, of course. It should not be controversial to any Member of the Congress of the United States. It will certainly be opposed by the governments of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Jordan and Haiti. All of these countries will be furious at the possibility that their check will be reduced by the amount of money that their nationals are sending back to people in their country.
But, after all, Mr. Speaker, if in fact foreign aid is simply the transfer of wealth from one country to another, then why is a remittance not that same thing? In fact, it is going to people who probably really need it, and it is far more efficient, far more efficient than the check we send to corrupt governments in terms of the usage."
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Why stop there? Not only cut their aid for remittances, deduct the outstanding balance for services rendered. Heck, when you add it all up those countries would have to pay us. End the parasitic dependences that perpetuate those governments' corruption in this manner.
Just one more marvelous disincentive (along with denying driver's licenses, recognition of matricular consulars, housing assistance and loitering plus crackdowns on document fraud and employers) that has to be dragged over the Democrat Party's figuratively dead body.
Definitely foreign aid should be frozen at current levels and free health care for the border crossers from Mexico should be deducted out of it. Also the costs of educating their children and prison care for their criminals.
Actually, the hospitals have hired collection agencies to go after deadbeat Mexican citizens.
The Mexican government has been cut out of the equation. Since the two governments can't get their poop in a group, good old capitalism has taken over.
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