Posted on 08/10/2004 6:27:33 AM PDT by RS
WASHINGTON – The federal government is offering $1 billion over four years to hospitals that provide emergency care to undocumented immigrants. But to get the money, hospitals will have to ask patients about their immigration status, a prospect that alarms hospitals and advocates for immigrants.
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So let me get this straight . . . First they complained that these hospitals were being forced to bear the enormous cost of providing care to illegal immigrants, and now they're saying they don't want to find out how many of these patients are illegal immigrants?
How did they know that there were so many illegal immigrants using their hospitals in the first place???
La Raza was apparently complaining up and down about this.
Why does anyone take a group named for the Spanish-langauge equivalent to "The Race" seriously?
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