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"JSM" |
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20 Jan 2008 01:02:02 PM |
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News from just one Texas Hospital |
This makes you wonder why we elect dummies
year after year and they do nothing for our citizens.
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; and,
3. Jack Ruby, who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years
later, b y 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 a Dallas Morning News 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 maternity wards is 2 5 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 was 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 US 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 or any proof of income.
An American citizen would have to provide a social security number
which would reveal their annual income. An illegal immigrant needs
only to claim to be poor and the hospital must take them at their
word.
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 m illion 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 ...
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 b
oasts such a ridiculous multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.
(Sorry for the length, but I think this needs wide circulation,
particularly to our 'employees' in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital in Dallas , Texas . There
must be many more hospitals across our country that also have to deal
with this.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy: < B>
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
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| User: "lein" |
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| Title: Re: News from just one Texas Hospital |
20 Jan 2008 11:52:09 PM |
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On Jan 20, 11:02 am, JSM <ekrub...@gmail.com> wrote:
This makes you wonder why we elect dummies
year after year and they do nothing for our citizens.
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;
Yeah, those incompetent doctors couldn't put his skull back together.
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| User: "Marcus Aurelius" |
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| Title: Re: News from just one Texas Hospital |
20 Jan 2008 03:32:45 PM |
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Parkland Memorial Hospital and adjoining UT Southwestern Medical
School also have a history of blatant discrimination against returning
Vietnam Veterans and of firing American nurses in favor of foreign
born nurses.
Parkland went event so far, at about the time of the end of the
Vietnam war, to not enroll in certain programs so that they would not
have to hire veterans. At about that same time, Parkland and UT
Southwestern Medical school were not hiring any veterans, including
Vietnam veterans. You must remember though, at the end of the Vietnam
war, that virulent anti-veteran discrimination was acceptable.
However, as the original article clearly discerns, while veterans were
discriminated against, illegal aliens, foreign born nurses, minorities
and women and general, were blatantly and overtly favored.
Our Orwellian laws and customes, as well as a corrupt and base
society, resulted in the aforementioned.
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| User: "JSM" |
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| Title: Re: News from just one Texas Hospital |
20 Jan 2008 08:53:14 PM |
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On Jan 20, 1:32 pm, Marcus Aurelius <alexander...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Parkland Memorial Hospital and adjoining UT Southwestern Medical
School also have a history of blatant discrimination against returning
Vietnam Veterans and of firing American nurses in favor of foreign
born nurses.
Parkland went event so far, at about the time of the end of the
Vietnam war, to not enroll in certain programs so that they would not
have to hire veterans. At about that same time, Parkland and UT
Southwestern Medical school were not hiring any veterans, including
Vietnam veterans. You must remember though, at the end of the Vietnam
war, that virulent anti-veteran discrimination was acceptable.
However, as the original article clearly discerns, while veterans were
discriminated against, illegal aliens, foreign born nurses, minorities
and women and general, were blatantly and overtly favored.
Our Orwellian laws and customes, as well as a corrupt and base
society, resulted in the aforementioned.
A: Your full of crap and B: You are trying to change the subject.
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