Why do U. S. hospitals treat illegal mexicans?

Question

I know of illegals get better treatment than the tax payers. Even tax payers have to show ID and proof on health insurance. If tax payers has no insurance they take down everything about you and you whole family. The hospitals should at least turn them in if they suspect someone is here illegal

Answer 1

I haven't seen anyone get 'better treatment' then the taxpayers and what taxes are the illegals not paying..sales...property..income...medicare...what. Whatever, it really isn't your question.

You know the other day I met someone that I couldn't do a thing for. I am pretty sure he wasn't legal, but his kids were, and his grandkids were. The kids and the older grandkids had jobs. Grampa wasn't feeling well, but he didn't come in or complain to his family for a long time because he was up here for his kids to take care of him, but he knew he was to old to survive getting dumped back across the boarder, so he didn't tell them.

When he got so sick that he couldn't hide it from them anymore, they brought him in. I assure you, they were very aware of how you and many other people feel about his being here, but this was way past what they could handle.

Sadly, this was also now way past what we could handle. It didn't need to be. There was a loss to the 15 Americans, working Americans, taxpaying Americans that were in that room. I somehow didn't find time that day to call immigration on the one that wasn't.

Is that what you wanted me to do? Do you want me to have them come take the sick and the dying out of their beds, put them on a bus, and dump them in the desert? Or are they suppose to wait for them to get better and grab them on there way out of the door? No, you don't want that. We would have already spent our good American money on them. Maybe I could chain them up to a pole outside in the parking lot and let them pick up the ones that are still alive when they get there? Would you like that?

And who would you like me to call? You certainly couldn't be so uneducated that you actually think that there is someone to call? There is NO ONE to call...no one...zip...no one home...no one interested...no one coming...no one in the federal goverment cares. Tell you what, why don't YOU...yes, you, go find some illegal person, look them in the eye, and try your best to make there life a living hell. You feel very impowered to tell me to do it...why don't you try it first...or am I just suppose to do your dirty work for you. Not my job, honey!

Answer 2

Hospitals in the past have refused care to many illegals !
Only recently have they took on a humanitarian effort to treat
people as a human right not as a income. They are not allowed
to refuse anyone even if you dont have ID. Most hospitals will treat
all conditions on a short event basis, givin you temporary relief and then refering you to a Doctor for full treatment. Its the Doctors who are allowed to refuse anyone they feel is not in the best interest of thier practice. Try not to invest in the attitude that
illegals are not worthy of simple human rights as medical Help.
Rather support the effort to help keep our country safe from
illegal intruders !!

Answer 3

Youre generalizing. I know of many "tax payers" that get much much better treatment than those "suspected" of being here illegally. Hospitals treat them because they are human beings.

Answer 4

I think it's terrible that I have to pay for other people's health care. People who smoke, don't exercise, etc... My insurance premiums are higher because of those people.

But I think it would be even worse if some smoker with lung cancer was left to suffer alone. Or if some illegal immigrant dropped dead of preventable or easily cured illness just because he didn't have an HMO.

Answer 5

Hospitals are required to provide emergency medical services. COBRA law.