This is in the town just north of Jupiter, FL. There is a similar problem in Jupiter itself. One patient had to go to the emergency room several years ago for AFib (atrial fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia) and the whole waiting room was filled with Hispanic (Mexican/Guatemalan) mothers holding kids with runny noses and non-emergency complaints.
URL to the video from hospital re costs:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=9dd52b97fc&view=att&th=12df332397ab310c&attid=0.1&disp=attd&zw
A number of folks have gotten so frustrated with this nation-wide problem that I have heard them suggest the CIA maneuver of extraordinary rendition of patients
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the_United_States) as a proposed solution. Note: NOT the torture part, just the expedited transportation to their home country.
Personally, if the ERs / Hospitals had an approved policy in place to treat US Nationals with residency proof first, and make the illegals step to the back of the line and wait until everyone else has been diagnosed and treated, I can't really see that as a bad solution.
It may have something to do with personal feelings of "intolerance," but rationally it has everything to do with payment for costly services (e.g., you can't walk in to a PUBLIX and pick up a loaf of bread and walk out without paying for it ... that's a crime ... and medical care for illegals, it could be argued, is no more or less of a crime ... if we charged every illegal with a crime (i.e., stealing the amount of money the care would cost as an objective measure of the crime) every time he/she walked into an ER, in a short time there would be enough data on the PD books to have the Customs and Border Patrol deport that person for being a Chronic Offender. (Using laws that are already on the books.)
Just a thought.
Hanlon's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
Feel free to apply Hanlon's to any segment of this episode. It seems to fit multiple places.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Health Insurance Required - not like auto insurance?
Question: ... If there are 29,000 starving children in Africa and 10s of thousands of adults out there in the arid, sandy countryside, and the NGOs save them all, where are the going to get the food to sustain all those lives over the long-term?
[Note: I'm just sayin' ...
Starting off on a project without a specified objective is like
going on a coast-to-coast trip through unfamiliar territory
without a map.]
Want to play a little game now? OK, when was the following excerpt written and by whom? (see answer below)
"Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed, clothe, or educate even one half of the number born to them. We see sick, harassed, broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing. We see fathers growing despondent and desperate, because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families. We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families."
"It is generally conceded by sociologists and scientists that a nation cannot go on indefinitely multiplying without eventually reaching the point when population presses upon means of subsistence." More ...
Answer:
(*) This is a quote from a Margaret Sanger article which she wrote 94 years ago. Her insights into population growth and control vis-a-vis the ability to care for any excess of children, over two per family, were first published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18.
Related observation:
[Note: I'm just sayin' ...
Starting off on a project without a specified objective is like
going on a coast-to-coast trip through unfamiliar territory
without a map.]
Want to play a little game now? OK, when was the following excerpt written and by whom? (see answer below)
"Everywhere we look, we see poverty and large families going hand in hand. We see hordes of children whose parents cannot feed, clothe, or educate even one half of the number born to them. We see sick, harassed, broken mothers whose health and nerves cannot bear the strain of further child-bearing. We see fathers growing despondent and desperate, because their labor cannot bring the necessary wage to keep their growing families. We see that those parents who are least fit to reproduce the race are having the largest number of children; while people of wealth, leisure, and education are having small families."
"It is generally conceded by sociologists and scientists that a nation cannot go on indefinitely multiplying without eventually reaching the point when population presses upon means of subsistence." More ...
Answer:
(*) This is a quote from a Margaret Sanger article which she wrote 94 years ago. Her insights into population growth and control vis-a-vis the ability to care for any excess of children, over two per family, were first published in the Woman Citizen, Vol. 8, February 23, 1924, pages 17-18.
Related observation:
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