How do you feel when Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical ?
Mexican ambulance drivers are transporting hospital patients unable to pay for medical care or emergency-room services in their country to facilities in the United States, where their treatment is mandated by federal law, authorities said yesterday.
The border crossings have been reported from Brownsville, Texas, to Douglas, Ariz., and involve Mexican ambulance companies whose drivers have been instructed by hospital officials in Mexico to take ailing and uninsured patients to the United States, the authorities said.
If this continues unabated, it will bankrupt the U.S. healthcare system and drive health insurance costs completely out of sight. It has simply got to stop. And, we've got to stop treating illegal aliens who cannot pay who are already here. I know it seems cruel, but it will eventually kill our children. I wonder how these ambulances are driving across exactly. I know at some time they are encountered by the Border Patrol. I wonder if the Agents are told not to stop ambulances. This type of thing has never happened in my Sector. However, we are not allowed to determine alienage on a sick or injured illegal. We have to call EMS. Once EMS takes them to the hospital and they get treatment they are free to stay in the US. Determining that a Mexican is illegal is one of the quickest ways to the beach.
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I can not believe that our Government is allowing this. Mexico WILL NOT treat their own people so they dump them here to treat on our dime!! Unfricken believable!!!
It is good to see you back Zoe!!
herazorsedge2006 ~ OH MY GOSH! How can you say WE are the problem?!?!?! Mexico is not treating their OWN people and they are dumping them on us and you state that it is OUR problem and we hate Mexico because WE do not want them? You are seriously messed up in your thinking!! We are not raciest nor do we hate Mexico because we do not want to treat their people. IT is MEXICO'S responsibility to treat their OWN people not ours!!
Makes me feel that the Mexicans are a lot smarter than we are, contrary to stereotypical thinking in this country.
You've got to be kidding, that is an outrage of mammoth proportions. Why in the heck are we allowing this kind of abuse to our country. I say we need to turn them around at the border and to them to heal them self.
this would be something to contact alipac about and let them know. we need to put a stop to this.
How can this possibly "bankrupt the U.S. healthcare system and drive health insurance costs completely out of sight"? Your statement strikes me as another example of misinformed paranoiac hyperbole doled out from right wing radio. The numbers cannot be that high.
Your hatred of Mexico is misdirected, friend. Health insurance costs are skyrocketing because we have no government control on pricing, due directly to our elected officials accepting campaign donations and responding quid pro quo to the health insurance lobby.
By the way, there is no U.S. healthcare system to bankrupt. Guess who repeatedly kills that idea: the health insurance industry. How can they make giant profits if our government regulates pricing? Mexico is not the problem. We are. European countries like France and Germany viewed Spain and Greece much like we view Mexico. Their answer? They invested in infrastructure in those countries and people decided to stay in their home country instead of emigrating.
Thank you for your time.
Tiredofaliens1: nice handle, by the way. You're right, everything we are doing and have done to stop the problem so far has worked brilliantly! Yes, Mexico does have an obligation to serve it own peoples needs, but when they cannot or do not, the problem becomes our own. We can work to solve it or respond like many of you have with anger and use of force. My suggestion is simply to take a deeper look into the root cause of illegal immigration and coordinate efforts to slow down or even reverse the process.
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