meowzer
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I don;t know how to embed the video
I don;t know how to embed the video
Talk about desperate
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darthtang aw
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See, we already offer a free medical plan in this country...accessible by anyone....preexisting conditions do not matter.
Darth (pathetic) Tang
Darth (pathetic) Tang
darthtang aw
Active Member
We often give better medical care to people who are here illegally than we do to our own citizens. I don't even want to get started on that subject...........
Stats to back this bag of horsecrap up.....
Darth (visited er before) tang
mproctor4
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I can't give you exact numbers but I see it everyday where I work. We have the largest popluation of Bermese in the country (most of which are legal) and a fairly high population of other immigratants. I work for a non-profit hospital. It is a daily occurance to have illegal immigrants come to our ER in end stage renal failure. They need emergent dialysis, spend a couple of days in ICU, then are released. Easily a $20,000 bill, usually alot more. In a week or less, the cycle starts over again. There isn't a dialysis center that will treat them because they don't have insurance, we can't turn away someone who could potentially die. Several of these patients have told me they can't be deported because they would die in their own country. I am in no way saying not to treat them....there just has to be a better way. Set up a few dialysis centers for these people, they can choose to go there or they are out of luck. It has to cost alot less than years of ER/ICU visits every week. Obviously we see many other types of medical emergencies, but this is very common. I don't know anything about the laws, but I know this happens alot.
darthtang aw
Active Member
Darth---why would you call this horsecrap? Do you work in the medical field or just happen to hang out in the ER everyday?
Does your hospital make it a practice to turn away american citizens with the same symptons? If not then the illegals do not get better, they get the same.
mproctor4
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Originally Posted by Darthtang AW http:///forum/thread/386313/talk-about-desperate#post_3392399
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Originally Posted by mproctor4 http:///forum/thread/386313/talk-about-desperate#post_3392398
Darth---why would you call this horsecrap? Do you work in the medical field or just happen to hang out in the ER everyday?
Does your hospital make it a practice to turn away american citizens with the same symptons? If not then the illegals do not get better, they get the same.
Your right, I shouldn't have used the word better. The difference is, they don't pay taxes. At least the man in the video will at some point qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. A system that he helped pay into at some point in his life.
Originally Posted by Darthtang AW http:///forum/thread/386313/talk-about-desperate#post_3392399
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Originally Posted by mproctor4 http:///forum/thread/386313/talk-about-desperate#post_3392398
Darth---why would you call this horsecrap? Do you work in the medical field or just happen to hang out in the ER everyday?
Does your hospital make it a practice to turn away american citizens with the same symptons? If not then the illegals do not get better, they get the same.
Your right, I shouldn't have used the word better. The difference is, they don't pay taxes. At least the man in the video will at some point qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. A system that he helped pay into at some point in his life.
darthtang aw
Active Member
Your right, I shouldn't have used the word better. The difference is, they don't pay taxes. At least the man in the video will at some point qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. A system that he helped pay into at some point in his life.
Thank you..that was my whole point, not better...