Posted on 09/07/2011 6:41:34 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta's safety net hospital on Wednesday reached an agreement with a private dialysis provider to continue treating a group of indigent patients, some of whom became critically ill after their life-sustaining treatment was cut off last week when a previous contract expired.
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We are such fools. Cities, states and hospitals are going broke yet we find enough money to treat illegals to very expensive medical procedures...
Our local county hospital is perpetually operating in the red. Meanwhile, it provides free dialysis treatments (not exactly by choice) to 80 illegal aliens from Mexico to the tune of 2 million dollars a month.
Perry would say to deny them is s “punishment”
It doesn’t need to be that expensive, but we don’t let people run dialysis machines in their home and charities don’t want to run them because they will get sued.
http://www.medwow.com/used-hemodialysis-machine-equipment/83.med
They bought them all a ticket back home to Mexico, I hope?
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