Monday,
July 30, 2007
Are We Stupid or What? Please don't say
"or What?
ILLEGAL
IMMIGRANTS GET FREE BIRTH DELIVERIES
[And free prenatal care
including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes.
They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and
formula.
They are actually
complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish.
While US Citizens of adjacent County are
being SUED for un-reimbursed medical care. Health Plan or
Medicare]
(This
has been checked out on SNOPES. See Hyperlink at bottom )
A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland in the
first three months of 2006 were illegal
immigrants.That's 11,200
babies born every year just in Dallas According to the article, the hospital
spent $70.7 million delivering 15,938 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with
almost $8 million dollars in surplus
funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million,
The average patient in
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
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
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
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---n o proof of income. An American citizen
would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual
income---an illegal immigrant n eed only claim
to be poor and the hospital must take them at their word.
My husband is a pilot for the United States Navy (yes, he fought in
The care I have received is perfectly adequate, but it's
bare bones, meat and potato medical care---not top of line.
Their (the illegals) medical care is free---simply
because they are illegal immigrants? Once again, there is no way to
verify their income.
There are about 140
Illegals get it all free! But U.S citizens
who live outside of
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,
In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat.'
(Ed: Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation----particularly to
our 'employees' in Congress.)
PLEASE
SEND THIS TO EVERY
If you want to verify
accuracy:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
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