Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas is a fairly
famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963
2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after
3. Jack Ruby-who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few
years later..by coincidence
‘On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second
busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new
babies arriving each year. (That’s almost 44 per
day-—every day)
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the
women who gave birth at Parkland in three months were
illegal immigrants. That’s 11,200 anchor babies born
every year just in Dallas
According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million
delivering 15,938 babies but managed to end up with almost
$8 million dollars in surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in
$34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3
million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland ‘s maternity wards is
25 years old, married and giving birth to her second
child.
She is also an illegal immigrant.
By law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based
on their immigration status or ability to pay. OK, fine.
That doesn’t mean they should receive better care than
everyday, middle-class American citizens. But at Parkland
Hospital , they do. ‘ Parkland Memorial Hospital has
nine prenatal clinics’.
That’s right !!!! NINE.
The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman
who was a patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with
her third child-—her previous two were also born at
Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the
Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200
to have them in Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her
to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was
unsure if she could come up with the money. Not that it
matters, the hospital won’t turn her away. (I wonder why
they even bother asking at this point.)
‘How long has this been going on? What are the
long-term affects?
Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland
in 1986 shortly after her mother entered the US illegally -
now she is having her own child there as well. (That’s
right, she’s technically a US citizen.)
These women receive free prenatal care including
medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care
classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles,
diapers and formula.
Most of these things are available to American citizens as
well but only for low-income applicants and even then, the
red tape involved is almost insurmountable.
Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not
have to provide any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a
social security number which would reveal their annual
income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and
the hospital must take them at their word.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County
residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also
have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at
their current job. Yeah, the ‘free’ care is not so
easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4
million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns
out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they
resided outside ofDallas County so the hospital is going
to sue them! Illegal’s get it all free! But U. S
citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued!
How stupid is this?
As if that isn’t annoying enough, the illegal immigrant
patients are actually complaining about hospital staff not
speaking Spanish . In this AP story, the author speaks
with a woman who is upset that she had to translate comments
from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The
doctor was trying to explain the situation to the family and
the mother was forced to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish. This was apparently a great injustice to her.
In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland
Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra
pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical
students at the University of Texas Southwestern for which
Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a
Spanish language requirement added to their already
jammed-packed curriculum. No other school in the country
boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multi-cultural) requirement.
( Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation
particularly to our ‘employees’ in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital in Dallas , Texas
. There are many more hospitals across our country that also
have to deal with this.
Great post. Infuriating, but great.
Wow! That post really packed a wallop! Don’t apologize for its length. It very clearly explained in detail what’s happening all over the country. I hope every FReeper reads it and gives it serious consideration. IMHO, it’s important to realize that what your post describes about what has occurred in that Texas hospital is NOT anecdotal. It’s TYPICAL and becoming increasingly so. I think it also goes a long way toward illustrating to what extent insidious PC politics has infiltrated every sector of our society and how it’s eventually going to destroy us. Thanks.
We have committed suicide.