What A Steaming Pile Of Journalistic Malpractice this is.
Hey folks,
But, it Is the New York Times. What a pile of Anti-American Rhetoric this one story is. They wonder why they are losing readership? This writer, DEBORAH SONTAG, should be called what she is. An Anti-American ultra Left Wing Loony, that does not deserve to be called an American. She OBVIOUSLY HATES this country. That seems pretty clear.
I hope folks, that you get as angry as I did when I first read this pile of garbage. But you know the sad thing is, Ms. Sontag most likely is clueless as to how offensive her little report is. 9 or 10 pages of this garbage.
JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
Shooing away flies and beaming at the tiny, toothless elderly mother who is his sole caregiver, Mr. Jiménez, a knit cap pulled tightly on his head, remains cheerily oblivious that he has come to represent the collision of two deeply flawed American systems, immigration and health care.
How sad. Ooh. We feel bad for poor little Jimenez and his toothless Grandmother. Right? Becuase we did not offer him, and the other 12 million CRIMINALS, Amnesty, and because we do not have Socialized Healthcare, he is a VICTIM again.
Eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken Floridian. A community hospital saved his life, twice, and, after failing to find a rehabilitation center willing to accept an uninsured patient, kept him as a ward for years at a cost of $1.5 million.
{Laughing} So this poor little ILLEGAL ALIEN was working here in Florida, when all of a sudden an EVIL Floridian, who was DRUNK, hit him. He is the victim. Uh, if he was not here ILLEGALLY, this would not have happened. Hello? If he did not come here outside the system, he may have had a better job, and his toothless Grandma might have even been able to JOIN him. {Sigh}
What happened next set the stage for a continuing legal battle with nationwide repercussions: Mr. Jiménez was deported — not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and “forcibly returned him to his home country,” as one hospital administrator described it.
Since being hoisted in his wheelchair up a steep slope to his remote home, Mr. Jiménez, who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, has received no medical care or medication — just Alka-Seltzer and prayer, his 72-year-old mother said. Over the last year, his condition has deteriorated with routine violent seizures, each characterized by a fall, protracted convulsions, a loud gurgling, the vomiting of blood and, finally, a collapse into unconsciousness.
“Every time, he loses a little more of himself,” his mother, Petrona Gervacio Gaspar, said in Kanjobal, the Indian dialect that she speaks with an otherworldly squeak.
{Laughing} Ms. Sontag seems to be completely smitten with those of the speak another language. "Speaks with an otherworldly squeak." You know because most Americans only speak English.
Mr. Jiménez’s benchmark case exposes a little-known but apparently widespread practice. Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants, or for newly arrived legal immigrants, creating a quandary for hospitals, which are obligated by federal regulation to arrange post-hospital care for patients who need it.
GOOD. The hospitals are doing what the GOVERNMENT SHOULD be doing. Sorry.
American immigration authorities play no role in these private repatriations, carried out by ambulance, air ambulance and commercial plane. Most hospitals say that they do not conduct cross-border transfers until patients are medically stable and that they arrange to deliver them into a physician’s care in their homeland. But the hospitals are operating in a void, without governmental assistance or oversight, leaving ample room for legal and ethical transgressions on both sides of the border.
Actually, They have found it's CHEAPER to send them home, you know, where they HAVE Universal Healthcare, than it is to continue to run up 1.5 Million Dollars that NO ONE will pay. They are doing this at THEIR cost.
Indeed, some advocates for immigrants see these repatriations as a kind of international patient dumping, with ambulances taking patients in the wrong direction, away from first-world hospitals to less-adequate care, if any.
“Repatriation is pretty much a death sentence in some of these cases,” said Dr. Steven Larson, an expert on migrant health and an emergency room physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. “I’ve seen patients bundled onto the plane and out of the country, and once that person is out of sight, he’s out of mind.”
But if our Healthcare System is so bad that we need to copy those that have Universal Healthcare, then would they not be going into a better system? REALITY CHECK here folks.
Hospital administrators view these cases as costly, burdensome patient transfers that force them to shoulder responsibility for the dysfunctional immigration and health-care systems. In many cases, they say, the only alternative to repatriations is keeping patients indefinitely in acute-care hospitals.
“What that does for us, it puts a strain on our system, where we’re unable to provide adequate care for our own citizens,” said Alan B. Kelly, vice president of Scottsdale Healthcare in Arizona. “A full bed is a full bed.”
ABSOLUTELY!
Medical repatriations are happening with varying frequency, and varying degrees of patient consent, from state to state and hospital to hospital. No government agency or advocacy group keeps track of these cases, and it is difficult to quantify them.
A few hospitals and consulates offered statistics that provide snapshots of the phenomenon: some 96 immigrants a year repatriated by St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix; 6 to 8 patients a year flown to their homelands from Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 10 returned to Honduras from Chicago hospitals since early 2007; some 87 medical cases involving Mexican immigrants — and 265 involving people injured crossing the border — handled by the Mexican consulate in San Diego last year, most but not all of which ended in repatriation.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE COMING HERE ILLEGALLY! THEY WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION. Idiot.
This goes on and on for 9 pages of this garbage. I'm not going to take up the space or the time here this morning to post it all. Go HERE and read it for yourself. This is not a new thing for Ms. Sontag. She has a history of rewriting history and slamming Conservatives. She is nothing more that a Far Left Wing Loony that hates this country and it's Conservative values. She probably has no clue as to the TRUE history of this country and what MOST Americans still hold dear. God, Family, and values. People STILL see good and evil. People still see Right and Wrong. People still believe that this is the greatest country on Earth.
Most Americans see the Illegal Alien problem as what it is. THEIR problem. Not ours. We do not see them as victims. Sorry, but if you break the law, get hurt, or deported, that is YOUR CHOICE. CHOOSE to come here legally, and you have the same Rights as any other LEGAL US Citizen. Then I would join her in her outrage if the Hospitals we attempting to send THEM back. I'm not talking about ANCHOR Babies. I'm talking about Legal Immigrants.
What a way to start off the week. {Sigh} This is why I rarely, and more and more of you, rarely, read the New York Times. Garbage like this.
Peter
Sources:
NYT - Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals
Hey folks,
But, it Is the New York Times. What a pile of Anti-American Rhetoric this one story is. They wonder why they are losing readership? This writer, DEBORAH SONTAG, should be called what she is. An Anti-American ultra Left Wing Loony, that does not deserve to be called an American. She OBVIOUSLY HATES this country. That seems pretty clear.I hope folks, that you get as angry as I did when I first read this pile of garbage. But you know the sad thing is, Ms. Sontag most likely is clueless as to how offensive her little report is. 9 or 10 pages of this garbage.
JOLOMCÚ, Guatemala — High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside the one-room house where he spends day and night on a twin bed beneath a seriously outdated calendar, Luis Alberto Jiménez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.
Shooing away flies and beaming at the tiny, toothless elderly mother who is his sole caregiver, Mr. Jiménez, a knit cap pulled tightly on his head, remains cheerily oblivious that he has come to represent the collision of two deeply flawed American systems, immigration and health care.
How sad. Ooh. We feel bad for poor little Jimenez and his toothless Grandmother. Right? Becuase we did not offer him, and the other 12 million CRIMINALS, Amnesty, and because we do not have Socialized Healthcare, he is a VICTIM again.
Eight years ago, Mr. Jiménez, 35, an illegal immigrant working as a gardener in Stuart, Fla., suffered devastating injuries in a car crash with a drunken Floridian. A community hospital saved his life, twice, and, after failing to find a rehabilitation center willing to accept an uninsured patient, kept him as a ward for years at a cost of $1.5 million.
{Laughing} So this poor little ILLEGAL ALIEN was working here in Florida, when all of a sudden an EVIL Floridian, who was DRUNK, hit him. He is the victim. Uh, if he was not here ILLEGALLY, this would not have happened. Hello? If he did not come here outside the system, he may have had a better job, and his toothless Grandma might have even been able to JOIN him. {Sigh}
What happened next set the stage for a continuing legal battle with nationwide repercussions: Mr. Jiménez was deported — not by the federal government but by the hospital, Martin Memorial. After winning a state court order that would later be declared invalid, Martin Memorial leased an air ambulance for $30,000 and “forcibly returned him to his home country,” as one hospital administrator described it.
Since being hoisted in his wheelchair up a steep slope to his remote home, Mr. Jiménez, who sustained a severe traumatic brain injury, has received no medical care or medication — just Alka-Seltzer and prayer, his 72-year-old mother said. Over the last year, his condition has deteriorated with routine violent seizures, each characterized by a fall, protracted convulsions, a loud gurgling, the vomiting of blood and, finally, a collapse into unconsciousness.
“Every time, he loses a little more of himself,” his mother, Petrona Gervacio Gaspar, said in Kanjobal, the Indian dialect that she speaks with an otherworldly squeak.
{Laughing} Ms. Sontag seems to be completely smitten with those of the speak another language. "Speaks with an otherworldly squeak." You know because most Americans only speak English.
Mr. Jiménez’s benchmark case exposes a little-known but apparently widespread practice. Many American hospitals are taking it upon themselves to repatriate seriously injured or ill immigrants because they cannot find nursing homes willing to accept them without insurance. Medicaid does not cover long-term care for illegal immigrants, or for newly arrived legal immigrants, creating a quandary for hospitals, which are obligated by federal regulation to arrange post-hospital care for patients who need it.
GOOD. The hospitals are doing what the GOVERNMENT SHOULD be doing. Sorry.
American immigration authorities play no role in these private repatriations, carried out by ambulance, air ambulance and commercial plane. Most hospitals say that they do not conduct cross-border transfers until patients are medically stable and that they arrange to deliver them into a physician’s care in their homeland. But the hospitals are operating in a void, without governmental assistance or oversight, leaving ample room for legal and ethical transgressions on both sides of the border.
Actually, They have found it's CHEAPER to send them home, you know, where they HAVE Universal Healthcare, than it is to continue to run up 1.5 Million Dollars that NO ONE will pay. They are doing this at THEIR cost.
Indeed, some advocates for immigrants see these repatriations as a kind of international patient dumping, with ambulances taking patients in the wrong direction, away from first-world hospitals to less-adequate care, if any.
“Repatriation is pretty much a death sentence in some of these cases,” said Dr. Steven Larson, an expert on migrant health and an emergency room physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. “I’ve seen patients bundled onto the plane and out of the country, and once that person is out of sight, he’s out of mind.”
But if our Healthcare System is so bad that we need to copy those that have Universal Healthcare, then would they not be going into a better system? REALITY CHECK here folks.
Hospital administrators view these cases as costly, burdensome patient transfers that force them to shoulder responsibility for the dysfunctional immigration and health-care systems. In many cases, they say, the only alternative to repatriations is keeping patients indefinitely in acute-care hospitals.
“What that does for us, it puts a strain on our system, where we’re unable to provide adequate care for our own citizens,” said Alan B. Kelly, vice president of Scottsdale Healthcare in Arizona. “A full bed is a full bed.”
ABSOLUTELY!
Medical repatriations are happening with varying frequency, and varying degrees of patient consent, from state to state and hospital to hospital. No government agency or advocacy group keeps track of these cases, and it is difficult to quantify them.
A few hospitals and consulates offered statistics that provide snapshots of the phenomenon: some 96 immigrants a year repatriated by St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix; 6 to 8 patients a year flown to their homelands from Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; 10 returned to Honduras from Chicago hospitals since early 2007; some 87 medical cases involving Mexican immigrants — and 265 involving people injured crossing the border — handled by the Mexican consulate in San Diego last year, most but not all of which ended in repatriation.
THEY SHOULD NOT BE COMING HERE ILLEGALLY! THEY WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION. Idiot.
This goes on and on for 9 pages of this garbage. I'm not going to take up the space or the time here this morning to post it all. Go HERE and read it for yourself. This is not a new thing for Ms. Sontag. She has a history of rewriting history and slamming Conservatives. She is nothing more that a Far Left Wing Loony that hates this country and it's Conservative values. She probably has no clue as to the TRUE history of this country and what MOST Americans still hold dear. God, Family, and values. People STILL see good and evil. People still see Right and Wrong. People still believe that this is the greatest country on Earth.
Most Americans see the Illegal Alien problem as what it is. THEIR problem. Not ours. We do not see them as victims. Sorry, but if you break the law, get hurt, or deported, that is YOUR CHOICE. CHOOSE to come here legally, and you have the same Rights as any other LEGAL US Citizen. Then I would join her in her outrage if the Hospitals we attempting to send THEM back. I'm not talking about ANCHOR Babies. I'm talking about Legal Immigrants.
What a way to start off the week. {Sigh} This is why I rarely, and more and more of you, rarely, read the New York Times. Garbage like this.
Peter
Sources:
NYT - Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals
