Subject:
'BIG D' TEXAS
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,
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
That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in
According to the article, the hospital spent
$70.7 million delivering
15,938 babies but managed to end up with
almost $8 million dollars in
surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5
million,
taxpayers
kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5
million.
The average patient in
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
Hospital has nine prenatal
clinics'.
That's right !!!!
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
were free
and the Mexican native was grateful because it would have
cost $200 to
have them in
to pay $10 per visit and $100 for the delivery but
she was unsure if
she could come up with the money. Not 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 effects?
Well, an other subject of the article was born at
shortly after her
mother entered the
her own child there as well. (That's right, she's technically a
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.
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 patients 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
the
hospital is going to sue them! Illegals get it all free!
But
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,
incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak
Spanish.
Additionally, medical students at the
for which
Spanish language requirement added to their
already jammed-packed
curriculum. No other school in the country
boasts such a ridiculous
multi-semester (multi-cultural)
requirement.
( Sorry for the length, but this needs wide
circulation particularly
to our 'employees' in
Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital is
many more
hospitals across our country that also have to deal with
this.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU
KNOW.