Posted on 12/07/2002 5:17:50 PM PST by ex-Texan
Edited on 05/07/2004 5:37:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The federal government has to pony up cash to help border communities and hospitals cover the costs of emergency medical care to illegal immigrants, the state's two U.S. senators and two congressmen representing border districts said yesterday.
The cost of uncompensated emergency medical services in Arizona is about $100 million, much of that in unpaid care to illegal and uninsured immigrants.
(Excerpt) Read more at tucsoncitizen.com ...
Look at the bright side, in a few more years it will be costing Arizona probably 400 million or more, and then maybe a few more American citizens will wake up to this lunacy. Maybe.
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