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.
"Are you a bounty hunter bill collector?"
"A man's gotta do something for a living."
"Dyin' ain't much of a livin', boy gringo."
This can hurt their ability to cross back into the U.S. freely.
How? Do the coyotes now require a credit check before accepting clients?
They had a vote to repeal it in Congress and our political class took a pass.
Yes --- the bounty hunter/bill collectors need to remember what the Mexicans did to Enrique Camarena. Mexico is very rigid about it's sovereignty --- even while demanding we give out our own.
Kind of a joke huh --- besides they can easily obtain fake ID's and cross over the border check points -- Vicente Fox dictated that no fingerprints be taken, no checks be done to make sure someone is really who their ID says they are.
Maybe he will when Arizona and Texas become solidly blue.
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