I got this in the mail the other day..would like to know how people feel about this?
Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous institution and for a variety of reasons:
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
"On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year. (That's almost 44 per day---every day)
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 anchor 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, Dallas County taxpayers kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.
The average patient in Parkland 's maternity wards is 25 years old, married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. 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 Parkland Hospital , they do.
" Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics. NINE.
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 Parkland . Her first two deliveries were free and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost $200 to have them in Mexico . This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. No t that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away. (I wonder why they even bother asking at this point.)
"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 U.S. illegally---now she is having her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a U.S. citizen.) These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition, birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.
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---no proof of income. An American citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their annual income---an illegal immigrant need 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 Iraq ) and while the health care is good, we Navy wives don't get any of these perks! Car seats? Diapers? Not so much. So my question is this: Does our public medical care system treat illegal immigrants better than American citizens? Yes it does!
As I mentioned, 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.
Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn less than $40,000 per year. (They also have to prove that they did not refuse health coverage at their current job. Yeah, the 'free' care is not so easy for Americans.)
There are about 140 pat i ents who received roughly $4 million dollars for un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County So the hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free! But U.S citizens who live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
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, Parkland Hospital is now providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak Spanish. Additionally, medical students a t the University of Texas Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed curriculum.. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.
In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat."
( Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation----particularly to our "employees" in Congress.)
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Pass this around, but I live in Texas, and I hear these Horror
stories all the Time. We need to enforce our Border, if Amnesty, passes America will cease to exist. I overheard this
illegal at the Hospital, brag about getting everything at no cost. While I had to pay close to 3 grand for the same service.
We have lost our country to a bunch of theives. And I am talking about the people running it.
send that out to everyone u no,,congress myspace users,with a email and phone # to the hospital,have numberous people complain,,and also send out names of congress who is willing to help,and the ones who arent,,so pissed tax payers can see which politicans r hurting us and which are helping us,,NO thats not right!The politicans have made laws that if we dont pay,,they can take our property to pay for hospital and doctors bills!!Thats just B.S,
I feel awful my friend...Good for you for publicing it. It is one of the most racistic claims I have ever heard!!!In a few words we can conclude that the writer almost thinks that it would be better to leave immigrants giving birth in the streets...I feel awful but unfortunately a bunch of people feeling like this, are not enough..
I would call everyone that was in charge of tax dollars in your state and make Social Assistance Reform a priority. In North Carolina to get any assistance you must prove a valid social security card ( don't have one - too bad can't help) we have the ability here to research it. Second of all, if you can not show proof of federal, state, and county residence you can not get free health care for your children or yourself. Many here go to the Health Department to have someone that can speak their language when they need medical attention. They must pay a $10 copay automatically and are responsible for a 1/3 of the care given. Low cost Health care in our state is available to everyone and it should be because I want those that have diseases (legal or illegal) to be taken care of to not spread whatever they have. There are no anchor babies as of November 2006 when the ammendment to the Constitution was added. Our social service departments are told to offer those that are dependant on aid or health care services issued by the state to make sure everything is offered to all those on assistance to keep from showing preference to one race. It is not the illegals fault, our state government showed them the stuff that was eligible and learned how the system worked. Like I said before you need to talk to your legislation for your state to implement the strategies that our state as implemented and reduce unnecessary spending. We will always have legal and illegal people trying to abuse the system that will never change. The process of how we handle them needs to be changed.
I can sympathize with your problem - not to long ago - 4 yrs ago - we had the same problem. We were a largly manufacturing state dealing in cotton, thread and cloth. When NAFTA opened many of our Mills closed, shut down,or moved to other countries resulting in over 30,000 jobs lost in a 2yr span and thousands were needing assistance. But, after the first year they began to weed out those that were not attempting to find work else where or were not reporting any wages received. Thus the social security validation process and residency issue went into effect eliminating many people who were abusing the system. I hope you can succeed in your quest for reform. Good luck
anna p claimed u were racist..that we shouldnt allow immigrants to have babies in the street..
Why the F not!!
If it was me or my wife,,we didnt have insurance,,our a@s would be out in the streets!!
Why dont anna let them have the babies at her house saving taxpayers millions of $,,?
I agree with u,,if they r illegal,,dont pat them on the F-in back,,iwill get locked up for breaking the laws,,womken have their babies in jail and i dont hear tree hugging illegal allien helping b@tches harking about that!--U cant help others before urself,,and thats what is happening to this country,,we give immergrants a hell of alot more than this country gives its own people..we are allowing politicans to slowly kill this country because other countries are paying our own politicans off!!
Call ur politicans and complain,,I like the idea of alerting everyone of this by giving a email of politicans who will and wont help its people,,and even the hospitals who r doing this,give names and #'si will complain!,we the taxpayers should have say so of where our money goes,,why throw it away when we can provide free medical care for all americans instead of all immergrants!
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