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Just One Hospital?

OldDog/NewTricks

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Sounds like Valley Med In San Jose, Ca.

This Is 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 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 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.

If you want to verify the accuracy of this information:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
 

DustDevil

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I know it's true. My mother, before she retired and after, volunteered her time and effort at the Crisis Pregnancy Center here in our town. Strictly a donation-run outfit, they counsel women on their options to not abort their babies. Many women were (are) "repeat offenders", saying they're considering an abortion so they come in for the counseling and all the freebies like baby food, formula, car-seats,clothing, etc. They work the system at all levels and at every turn. My Mother, God bless her, did it out of love for her Saviour and her belief that unborn babies are precious to God-and they are-so she kept on as long as her health allowed her.
The "anchor baby" law is another example of a law whose intention was one thing but the application and outcome, another. My understanding is that being born on US soil to non-native parents being a basis for citizenship was intended to give citizenship rights to children born to slaves. A good law gone bad.
 
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Anonymous

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Wow. Those are some pretty amazing statistics. I was born in Parkland Hospital on Halloween of 1972. Now I know where my recurring dream comes from. Every few nights I dream I'm surrounded by hundreds of babies crying in spanish and I can't understand them. I think mothers should read spanish to their babies while they are still in the womb. That way they won't feel left out of the conversation when they get to the nursery. This little tidbit of instruction sure would have helped me. Oh well, almost time for my therapy session. Adios.
 

OldDog/NewTricks

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In Kindergarden V_Key was put in a Bi-Lingual Class.
Her first night I went to Kiss her Good night and She was Sobbing.
She said "I don't want the Teacher To Holler At Me and Throw me on the Floor." That's what she saw.

In-fact what happened was - the little Spanish kids would come in not speaking english-and no wanting to leave their mother - the Teacher would take them by the arm and talk to then in spanish - the kids would throw then selves on the floor crying.

V_Key went to that school one Day.
 

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