Posted on 10/26/2010 9:28:29 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA
Beleaguered Bay State and U.S. taxpayers coughed up a staggering $35.7 million this year in free emergency health care for more than 52,000 illegal aliens in Massachusetts, sparking outrage from candidates and critics who back a tougher line on immigration.
The figures — released by Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration under an order for the Secretary of State’s office and after more than a month of ducking questions — show illegal immigrants who belong to MassHealth Limited received $33.8 million in taxpayer-funded in-patient hospital care this year.
They also made 6,160 visits to the state’s overburdened emergency rooms in the fiscal year ending in June for an additional cost of $1.9 million, a Herald analysis shows.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Honestly I thought it would have been a lot more.
Amateurs. Here in mexifornia, we’re in the billions.
Me too. I suspect cooked books. This is WAY too low.
Sad what’s happened to “Reagan Country”.
Wouldnt want to freak out those Barney Frank voters with real numbers..
They might go T-P Caucus on them.. I mean more than already are..
The T-P Caucus is growing daily weekly monthly..
It Must crawl Patricks nape..
We’ll see in a week.
Arizona replaces controversial signs warning residents of illegal drug activity
Photo on website
Arizona signs confirming that drug and human smuggling activity was taking place well inside the Arizona border have received a face lift and now offer campers and hikers different information when they travel to the Arizona public land regions.
The new sign now reads, “Visitor Information Update- active federal law enforcement patrol area, clean-up and restoration crews at work, contact BLM rangers for current area status.” In smaller print in the lower left-hand side of the sign provides the Bureau of Land Management district office phone number and encourages residents to call 911 for emergency.
Why the fghijk don’t illegals use an Urgent Care or Take Care clinic at a drugstore when the doctor’s office is closed, like the rest of us?? It’s waaaay cheaper... E.R.’s are for LIFE AND DEATH care!!
Keep this in mind, their anchor babies are counted as American citizens.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6zv8kiNmb4
Illegal-immigrant driver roll call
Howie Carr has a frequent segment in which those traffic violators with Hispanic names are read from police blotters. The name of the offender is read in an exaggerated Spanish-accented English, along with the offender’s traffic violation, typically including driving without a valid license, driving without proof of insurance, and/or driving without valid registration. After each name is read, the first few bars of “La Cucaracha” is played in a car-horn rendition. The segment is usually bookended around Carr’s opinions on the dangers of illegal immigrants. The segment was introduced in August 2006, when the question of in-state drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants was a controversial issue among Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates.
Meanwhile, Greta and FOX news continue to push amnesty.
Tonight, she agreed wholeheartedly with Napolitano that nothing more can be with enforcement until Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform.
Angle gets called a b**** for raising illegal immigration as an issue.
The entire media is trying to discredit the anti-amnesty, pro-enforcement position.
Thanks for the ping!
Because, "It free" at E.R.'s. Illegals are the biggest cause of our health care cost increase. Every time one of them goes for free care, that bill is added onto a paying patients bill. They don't want to pay for anything. The carpet mills in Dalton, Georgia, offered insurance to every employee, legal or not. The illegals wouldn't take it because medical care was free at the E.R.'s. The mills didn't mind. It's less money out of their pockets. This amounted to Americans picking up part of the cost of doing business for the mills.
The national suicide continues...
Take the needed moneies form the State employee widows fund.
On the other hand, Palin seems to be toughening up on the issue. In her latest Facebook posting she takes Murkowski to task for having supported amnesty. Wouldn’t that have been McAmnesty?
They also made 6,160 visits to the state’s overburdened emergency rooms in the fiscal year ending in June for an additional cost of $1.9 million, a Herald analysis shows.
A little over $300 per visit? I call bull on that number.
Didn’t you know?
America is the land of the FREEBIE!
Yes, LEGAL citizens will pay your way!
In fact, if you are ILLEGAL, you need to VOTE too!
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