Illegals require health services

The Washington Times ^ | 11-10-05 | Keyonna Summers

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Some health care officials are urging local governments to start providing health care services for the region's illegal aliens -- or get ready for more outbreaks of contagious diseases like tuberculosis. "Unless you're able to do something about the immigration issue, if you cut services to all undocumented ... that's very stupid," said Francisco Semiao, education and outreach coordinator at George Washington Cancer Institute. "You're going to have a bunch of people walking around with who knows what, spreading Lord knows what," he said. "They ride the Metro seven days a week, and you do the math." Although most local hospitals said they do not record a patient's legal status, some physicians said the fear of deportation deters many illegals from seeking treatment in emergency rooms.

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We give the French a lot of grief here on FreeRepublic, but they did invent one of the most effective field levelers towards rooting out the endemic ineptitude of a ruling elite class: the guillotine.

[DumpsterDiver]

Hello Free Republic!

Welcome aboard!

[PositiveCogins]

"You're going to have a bunch of people walking around with who knows what, spreading Lord
knows what,"

It' already happening now. Thanks to our great political leaders in a few years the US will be just another 3rd world country. Thats what Clinton wants so thats what Bush wants.
Senior Whorehay Bush and most of the republicans in office willingly let Vicente Fox dictate our immigration policy. Why? Because they are all dirty and Clinton has the FBI files to prove it. OH, but what about the good job that Bush is doing on the war on terror? Believe me, someone is getting rich on that war somewhere. Oh, but what about the tax cuts? They are already trying to cut deductions so they can increase tax revenue, back door tax hike.
Any vote today is a vote for the status quo. No change just a different face.

[janetgreen]

The elites don't have to make contact with the masses of illegal aliens like the rest of us do, so they don't care. They won't get sick, and neither will their kids.

Their votes have been sold to the highest bidders in the cheap labor lobby.

My son is currently paying a bill for an emergency room visit - total $1,200. The illegal aliens were going through that ER like sh** through a goose, and they don't pay a cent.

[3AngelaD]

I could not believe the Wash Times ran this one-sided piece of propaganda this morning. The editors must be on a retreat.

[PositiveCogins]

"Like Able Danger"

The whitehouse is doing it's best to whitewash the whole problem. The lack of anything being done about both Able Danger and Illegal Immigration leads right to Bush. He could get the ball rolling on both issues but he just sits on his hands flaps his arms and quacks like the stinking lame duck that he is. That was two votes I wasted on this conservative poser.

[azhenfud]

"9) I'm in favor of hospitals and health care providers being required to disclose publicly, in print, and upon demand, the names of all non-citizens/indigents receiving any medical care which is billed to or paid for by taxpayers along with the costs of those services billed or be penalized by losing reimbursements for any payments due to be paid from taxpayer funds. All hospitals and health care providers should be held openly accountable for how they spend or use public funds and accountable to the citizen first and the illegal alien only in emergency cases."

[aCDNinUSA]

The only thing that can turn the Republican party around right now is to tackle this problem immediately or Hillary will do it for them.

[azhenfud]

Every Congressional represenative ought to be forced to spend a day in an emergency ward inundated with hoardes of ailing illegal aliens.

Let THEM breathe the air of compassion for the illegal.

[FreedomFarmer]

In Federal LEO circles, they're known as Biobombs.

Many were told to seek free medical help in the U.S. by Cuban medical personnel in Latin America and Mexico for unrelated illnesses.

Connect your own dots.

[azhenfud]

Hey! Welcome Abroad!

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

Amen!

Close the borders!

[stopem]

To late for stopping the spread of infectious diseases like TB.

Go to CDC and see how many cases are reported.

[blackie]

Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!

Support our Minutemen Patriots!

Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!

[Tammy8]

They do come up here for medical services- they bring any ailing family members up for care too. Some illegals work at jobs where health care is offered- they WON'T buy it!! Some are on assistance and won't use the programs already in place for them to use for FREE medical services. Instead they go to the ER for all medical care- yes the most costly care- they don't care they don't pay for it.

Our local dentist felt so bad about the illegals and their children showing up at his office as an emergency and in severe pain, he started a program to donate preventative care to them. All they had to do was make appointment, they didn't. They continued to show up only when needing urgent care and disrupting his schedule. His attempt to get them to accept preventative care was a failure.

Last year an illegal arrived here on a walker, people were amazed he hiked across the border on a walker- when he was asked about it, he wasn't even bashful- he said he needed surgery on the veins in his legs, so he came to the US to get it. Border Patrol did not respond, the State Police did and they said they were taking him to a homeless shelter in a nearby town and the folks at the shelter would make sure he got the care he needed. It really has reached the limit.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Oh I just love this. Whooping cough? TB? What are the symptoms, because I've been coughing since July. I finally went to the doctor late last month and paid cash. He didn't do a chest xray, and told me I wouldn't be able to afford the Biaxin. I took the antibiotics he prescribed, and I'm still coughing. I frequent Hispanic markets, and dirt cheap discount stores.

In fact, I'm exhausted and can't clean the house.

[PositiveCogins]

"or Hillary will do it for them."

Someting tells me that the fix is in on this one. If the republicans run another Dole in 08 then I know it to be true. A third party candidate running as a conservative on the immigration issue could draw enough votes off of the republican candidate that the beast could win. If thats the case then it's quite possible that the Hildabeast could be the last president of the United States.