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Sunday, March 7, 2010

PARKLAND HOSPITAL...THE GIFT THAT NEVER STOPS GIVING...TO ILLEGALS

-http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
*Hat tip to Bogiekoki
If you want to verify accuracy: I did check this out and it is TRUE.

Just one hospital
Unbelievable !

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 Oswald, died there a few years later.

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 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 in 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 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 clin ics. NINE.

The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a patient at one of the clin ics 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 t he 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, 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 US 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.
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! Illegal's 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) requirement.
(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide circulation particularly to our "employees" in Congress.)
Remember that this is about only ONE hospital in Dallas , Texas . There are many more hospitals across our country that must also deal with this.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S.. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.

9 comments:

Ernest said...

Of much greater importance is our undeclared war with Mexico. When armed Federales, drug cartels, and ten percent of Mexico's population invade our nation, it’s time to militarize that border. Employers who hire Mexican invaders should be prosecuted and jailed. E-Verify should be mandatory. The invaders must be denied medical care. Our Southwest is not Mexican Atzlan. We should allow free access to Mexico, but prevent access to the United States until those here illegally are deported. The invaders cost us at least $300 billion yearly paying for their free health care, education, housing, food, and unemployment. Their rampant crime rate regularly kills more of our citizens than the 9-11 terrorist attacks. This is utter insanity. It must be immediately stopped, and, like other topics, it is absolutely not open to debate

Warrior L.A. said...

AMEN to that, Kati.

greg said...

National suicide! May Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, and all the liberals in Congress who have foisted this upon us -- -- rot in hell.......

Carolyn said...

SOMEONE HAS TO PAY FOR THOSE!!!! US.

Carolyn said...

THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THE HOSPITALS IN CALIF. ARE PUTTING OUT! WONDER HOW THEY STAY OPEN - GOV'T SUBSIDIES AND MEDICAID NO DOUBT, JUST AS THIS ONE HAS!

Kati said...

Unbelievable is right - and a horrific, degrading insult to every American citizen. I'll never understand why so many in power have allowed this to happen - or to the extent it's at. This kind of devastation wasn't even needed to bring America down -- there was and is already enough.

Kati said...

I just sent the article (minus comments) to Senator Nelson. He gets a continuous F where any kind of immigration issues are concerned. I'm hoping he'll be one of those who get replaced - even though he won't come up for re-election for two years. He's held that seat since 1979....it's time for him to go.

Bogiekoki said...

This is disgusting.

JustJohn said...

good gadfry!