Arizona’s Hispanics moving to ‘other’ states. (I find his story funnier than hell)

On 7/29/2010 10:21 AM, RM v2.0 wrote:
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>> Refute what a&*$?%e?? Tell me. How many hospitals have closed because
>> of the flood of illegal invaders clogging their emergency rooms??

LOS ANGELES — This is part three of a five-part series looking at how
illegal immigration affects U.S. border security, the criminal, health
care and education systems, as well as the economy. Watch the series
this week on FOX News Channel.

Overburdened by the uninsured and overwhelmed by illegal immigration
(search), public health care in Los Angeles is on life support.

Sixty percent of the county’s uninsured patients are not U.S. citizens.
More than half are here illegally. About 2 million undocumented aliens
in Los Angeles County alone are crowding emergency rooms because they
can’t afford to see a doctor.

According to the State Association of Hospitals (search), California’s
public health system is “on the brink of collapse.” In Los Angeles
County, patients can wait four days for a hospital bed and up to two
years for gallbladder surgery.

“The hospitals are closing because of the totality of the uninsured,”
said Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, director of the Los Angeles County Health
Department (search). “If you’re legally a resident in California and
you’re poor, you have a right to basic services.”

But some critics say the taxpayers can’t be the HMO (search) to the
world. Last year, Los Angeles County spent $340 million to treat the
uninsured; that’s roughly $1,000 for every taxpayer.

“We’re citizens here. Why should somebody from another country that’s
here illegally get anything that we can’t get? I mean that’s dumb,
that’s not right,” said Don Schenck, whose son, Bill, is mentally disabled.

Though the Schencks are uninsured, and considered poor by county
standards, his father had to find a way to pay for his Bill’s care while
thousands of others, in the country illegally, get it for free.

“It makes you feel pretty bad when you’re born in that country and
you’re handicapped and you’ve got a learning disability and you can’t
get medical,” Schenck said.