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
Hanlon's Razor Applied to Aliens & Legislators
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