Posted on 02/22/2005 5:05:20 PM PST by F16Fighter
Rhetorical? or looking to get me banned for saying what I think?
So you're OK with crime as long as there are "rich folk" to pay for it?
--Boot Hill
I'll tell you why. It has a bad case of the Mexicans. They are voting for liberal politicians that are bleeding the state dry. They are turning California into another Mexico.
I thought I saw somewhere that your economy is booming. I know your crime is down.
Recorded crime is down because we are putting record numbers of criminals in jail. About two million of them.
The crime of illegally entering the United States is up. But it isn't recorded if they don't catch the creep.
The new hospital gets the patients who can afford to pay for the new equipment or who have good insurance.
Really, how does that work? Are the new hospitals refusing to treat illegals?
It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk.
That's right because, like I said, illegals are driving good people away.
That's what crime does, it destroys wealth. And illegals are criminals.
Hate to tell you this but the total population growth in CA is pulling away from the rest of the states.
As you say, "CA is pulling away from the rest of the states."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1328890/posts
Often times they refuse to treat people without excellent insurance or credit cards with large limits.
The federal government requires only that emergency rooms of hospitals that accept Medicare stabilize anyone who is brought in. After they are stable, the hospital has no further obligation unless state law, local laws, or hospital policies require it. (Some are nonprofit charitable organizations)
Like all businesses, some hospitals are willing to take less desirable credit risks. There is nothing unique to illegal laborers and older hospitals closing. Or any type older business closing in light of new competition.
That's right, tons of Mexicans coming across the border, having babies. But it costs a lot more to rent a U-Haul leaving Californian than going there. That's because all the taxpayers are being driven away.
If you take the demographic data in the article and lay it on top of this data, you see two trends. The illegals are going to the states with the highest total growth and to the states with the highest percentage growth.
I'll bet a lot of hospitals will stop accepting Medicare patients.
Like all businesses, some hospitals are willing to take less desirable credit risks.
And those hospitals are going to be pretty bad hospitals. That's why good people are leaving the Southwest.
"It's not that the hospitals close because they have too many illegals, it's because they don't have enough rich folk."
You really have no concept of healthcare finance do you?
Well, don't FUSS, come up with a viable solution, give it to us and let us email our representatives.
In Georgia, undocumenteds work in chicken houses, are day-laborers, etc. Some are in gangs, some work 6 to 9 months, then go back home for 3 to 6 months and live off what they earned.
Guest-worker Program? YES, BUT the undocumented MUST go back to his/her home Country first and apply for Guest-Worker status. AND, the day the job ends or the worker quits, the worker is escorted back to the border.
That should reduce the undocumented ranks by about a half or two-thirds. AND, NO Undocumented Pregnant Women get Guest-Worker cards.
While we're at it, change the laws regarding US Citizenship. If a baby is born to an Undocumented or a Guest-Worker, that baby is NOT a US Citizen. Only legal resident aliens get the honor and privilege of having their newborns become US Citizens if born in this Country.
Unless the USofA plans to Annex Mexico and Central America, it's time to sweep the undocumenteds back into their own Countries.
And while we're at it, let's start a program to charge the Country the undocumented (aka Illegal Alien) comes from for all medical expenses. We'll take the payment in Oil, I imagine.
Yeah, a bit of sarcasm.
As for your assertion that illegal immigration is putting all the clinics and hospitals along the border out of business, that is incorrect.
As the population in the Mexican border towns has grown rapidly, the mexican residents have put strains on the US medical machine. They have always utilized US facilities, this is not new.
I agree. You can see it around you every day. This nation is changing rapidly. I am sick to my stomach at the lack of any resolve on the part of our representatuves to do something about this.
I urge everyone to read about the fall of Rome and the barbarian invasions.
In other words there is so much illegal immigration, it is increasing the population of the states where they go. In California, about 25% of the population is foreign-born.
Give me the name of the hospital and I'll ask them. Some of the very best (if not THE very best) hospitals in America are required to accept a certain percentage of indigents.
The Texas Attorney General had to get onto the largest and best hospital in Houston for not devoting enough resources to indigent care. And people from all over the world fly their private jets to Houston to go to that hospital.
Hospitals don't close because they have too many patients, they close because they don't have enough good paying patients. Don't blame the poor, blame the rich who go elsewhere.
I agree. Most illegals hate this country and care only to bleed it dry. They are rodents of the worst kind and should be sent back and told to apply the legal way, with two sponsors and a job lined up.
People are leaving the Southwest? Since when?
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