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How Can This Be True? Do Illegal Aliens Really Get Better Free Health Care Than The Us Military?
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 wo men 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 heir 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. 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 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 il legal 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 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 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 at 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) req uirement.
In the meantime, I have to end my column here. I have to go buy a car seat.”
(Ed: Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation—-particularly to our “employees” in Congress.)
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY US CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy: http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati…
10 Responses to “How Can This Be True? Do Illegal Aliens Really Get Better Free Health Care Than The Us Military?”
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whitepai said on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 21:12
believe or not they can even vote
because nobody is going to check
if everything they put in the voter registration form
is the true…
angela R said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 0:28
Thats where “SECURE THE BORDERS” comes into the picture….These hospitals CANNOT turn away these patients, legally and morally. Why aren’t you furious at this govt. for leaving the borders wide open?
Maggym said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:00
I work for a government agency and see all this abuse too and there is not a darn thing I can do about it.
Thank for the info
Naturesc said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:13
Homeless Veterans
According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about one out of every three in the adult homeless population has served in the armed forces. On any given day, as many as 200,000 veterans (male and female) are living on the streets or in shelters, and perhaps twice as many experience homelessness at some point during the course of a year.
Many other veterans are considered near homeless or at risk because of their poverty, lack of support from family and friends, and dismal living conditions in cheap hotels or in overcrowded or substandard housing.
Right now, the number of homeless male and female Vietnam-era veterans is greater than the number of service persons who died during that war — and a small number of Desert Storm veterans are also appearing in the homeless population. http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=vets.lev…
Veterans Health Issues
While the VFW is concerned about the health of all veterans, the organization focuses its resources on illnesses and disease that are service-connected and are unique to the military, such as health problems resulting from exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War or service in the Persian Gulf. The number of diseases that the Department of Veterans Affairs has recognized as associated with Agent Orange or Persian Gulf Syndrome continues to expand and includes diabetes and prostate cancer to chronic fatigue syndrome and post-traumatic stress disorder.http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=vets.lev…
The Fight for Veterans’ Rights
Imagine no GI Bill of Rights, no health care, no disability compensation, no service-connection rating for victims of Agent Orange or radiation exposure, no educational retraining for disabled veterans, no home-loan guarantees. Worse, imagine no one cared.
For more than 100 years, the VFW has cared when no one else did, making the non-profit veterans’ organization the veteran’s greatest advocate. Thanks to grassroots efforts by its milion-member membership and supporters, when the VFW charges up Capitol Hill, senators and representatives listen and legislatiion is born.
Here are the following principles guiding VFW in its legislative initiatives:
Veterans must not have to wait for benefits to which they are entitled.
Veterans must be ensured access to high-quality medical care.
Veterans must be guaranteed timely access to the full continuum of health-care services,including long-term care.
Veterans must be assured burial in state or national cemeteries in every state.
Specialized care must remain the focus of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
VA’s mission to support the military medical system in time of war or national
emergency is essential to the nation’s security.
VA’s mission to conduct medical and prosthetic research in areas of veterans’ special needs is critical to the integrity of the veterans health-care system and to the
advancement of American medicine.
VA’s mission to support health professional education is vital to the health of all Americans.
In 2005, the VFW was instrumental in making a reality, the passage of Capitol Hill initiatives aimed in improving healthcare for veterans, as well as increasing VA benefits for deserving veterans. The following list details some of VFW’s accomplishments:
Stopping the review of 72,000 cases of severely disabled veterans suffering from PTSD. While we are supportive of eliminating fraud, VA’s sole intent was to reduce compensation of certain veterans under the guise of ‘fraud’.
VA’s review was curtailed, thanks to grassroots efforts and the thousands of phone calls and e-mails to VA and Congress. Congress even put language in the appropriations bills preventing VA from undertaking any future review. Your efforts protected veterans.
Earmarks $82.4 billion in emergency funding for DOD and Tsunami relief efforts.
Increases the maximum benefit under the Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance program from $250,000 to $400,000, and military death gratuity from $12,000 to $100,000.
Grants a special death gratuity of up to $150,000 for combat operations.
Provides an additional death gratuity of $238,000 for deaths that occur before the enactment of this Act in combat operations, in a combat zone, or in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom.
Offers additional supplemental traumatic injury insurance with a payment of up to $100,000 if the member sustains a traumatic injury.
Passage of the Veterans Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act, which authorizes a cost-of-living adjustment of about 4.1% in the rates of disability compensation, clothing allowance and DIC.
Passage of Fiscal Year 2006 Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Appropriations. Included in the provision:
·$82.6 billion in funding for Department of VA and Military Construction.
·$70.2 billion in funding for VA of which $37.2 billion goes to Veterans Benefit Administration and $33 billion for Veteran Health Administration.
·$1.2 billion in emergency funding to address budget shortfalls in health care.
·Earmarks $607 million for major construction projects, and $198.9 for minor construction projects.
·$412 million for medical and prosthetic research.
·$85 million for long-term care facilities.
·$6.2 billion for military construction with $4 billion for family housing.
·Funds $1.8 billion to implement 2005 base closures and realignment (BRAC).
Passage of the Fiscal Year 2006 National Defense Authorization Act, which:
·Grants a 3.1% pay raise for servicemembers, offers 20 types of bonus and special pays, and increases incentive and hardship duty pays.
·Extends TRICARE health coverage to reservists and family members as they continue service.
·Increases TRICARE benefits for surviving children of members who die on active duty.
·Increases death gratuity payments to $100,000 – retroactive payments given to survivors of those who died on or after Oct 7, 2001.
·Permanently increases Servicemembers Group Life Insurance to $400,000.
·Provides $60 million in additional funds to child care and family assistance services to active duty and reserve families.
·Accelerates phase-in to 2009 of full concurrent receipt for military retirees who are rated 100% IU by VA.
·Creates a task force on mental health and the armed forces.http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=vets.lev…
These brave soldiers fought when our government said it is time to serve your country on foreign soil. Then our government turned their back on them. If not for the benefits received through the VFW organization, our soldiers would have nothing.
Meanwhile, every politician in the White House is guaranteed a lifetime of income and benefits – that would even include a mental institution.
I don’t know about you, but it makes me sick to my stomach to think of how our soldiers are treated when they come home from wars they didn’t choose to be in.
If you see a soldier, shake his or her hand and genuinely tell them thank you for serving our country. God Bless You.
NONAME said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 5:56
As I have stated in many other posts, the Power Brokers want the North American Union very badly so there would be only two Social Classes. A Super-Rich Elite Class and a Dirt-Poor Slave Class.
Amnesty for Illegal Aliens is another assault on the US Middle Class just as outsourcing and NAFTA and CAFTA are.http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com…http://www.usillegalaliens.com/impacts_o…http://www.fightingimmigrationanarchy.co…http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscale…http://www.numbersusa.comhttp://www.weneedafence.com
JAMIE G said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 10:09
Just another example of our system failing us. Like the dumb broad before me, She only says get over it because she probably doesn’t pay taxes and don’t care one way or the other. As a long time tax payer in this country, it irritates me that our tax dollars get pissed away on this sort of thing every day of every year. It’s bad enough that we pieces of sh!t in this country who milk our system as it is, now we have to worry about the ILLEGALS milking our system as well, what a joke. Our fore fathers are rolling over in their graves after seeing what is happening to this country. If they knew (my opinion only of course) what the declaration of independence was being used for and backfiring on the original purpose.
K H said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 12:59
Hey Spazz,did you know that if I ,as an American citizen, were to run across the Rio Grande INTO Mexico,the Mexican guards would just shoot me?If I were captured I would be thrown into a disgusting jail and left to rot.I would NOT be entitled to any medical treatment because I had broken Mexican law.If I lived in Mexico I would probably flee to the U.S.too.
Chef D said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 18:15
Illegal immigrants do not get a free ride at all.. Every woman in the US, regardless of immigrant status will be given free prenatal care if they can’t afford it.. If you’re low income you will get the same perks as everyone else.
I have worked at a hospital for over 10 years..
Please stop hating on the illegal immigrants and find something better to do with your time.
Spazz said on Thursday, October 1, 2009, 20:57
people like you need to get a life and stop hating on immigrants
Reyna said on Friday, October 2, 2009, 3:37
oh get a life; stop your crying