How Stupid Is This?

[kari21]

How Stupid Is This?

I went to Snopes on this and it shows to be all true.

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 Lee Harvey Oswald, died there a few years later..by coincidence

"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 is 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 affects?

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!

Illegals 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 only ONE hospital is Dallas , Texas . There are many more hospitals across our country that also have to deal with this.

If you want to verify accuracy:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp

[mikhail7]

It's plenty stupid, I'd say.

[irishcowboy]

sounds about par for the course.....

not the first time this sort of thing has happened.....

I remember a kid down the block from us, 4 houses down.... single mom and him....

he had more toys, games and other things then all 6 of us....

his mom drove a brand new car (looked alot newer then ours) CADDY.......

lived in the same size house we were in......

had new cloths on a very regular basis...

dad had to pay for our medical insurance,

he had his taken care of.....

my dad worked, mom did some part timing for a little extra....

his mom did not work, but collected a welfare check....

nothing new.....

just different time, different location......

same ol' story....

the Bible speaks about this, and those that are diligent in their work it is noted, those that are slackards, sluggards, lazy, moochers, freeloaders, so forth and so on, well, it is also noted.... they are not doing what the Bible says to do......

I have earned my own money since age 12, worked around the house since way before that for my allowance.... when minimum wage wasd $1.15, I was earning $2.00 - 5 bucks an hour...... after I finished High school, minimum was about $1.25 and I was offered a job starting at $10.00 ( i did not take it, for i had already signed up for the Navy)

when you work and network yourself, and your work is good, people notice and things happen.....

when i was in school this last time (60 credits in 1 year, 4.0, perfect attendance, while working full time and also a part timer to pay for the schooling) the instructor and me were talking about workers.... and I told him that I could pick out those in the class that would go far.... he asked how.... so I explained who I would hire and why.....

out of a class of 30, if I had unlimited openings, there was only two (2) that i would hire, and they did not have the highest GPA...... but they were job minded, not hourly minded...... you could see this through their daily activities in the Lab work...

many in this generation believe that some one owes them something.... .little do they realize, it is not them that are owed, but it is them that owe some one else.....

mike