Beyond belief....
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*Subject:* Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, TX
*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.
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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! **Illegals get it all free!** **But U. S citizens who
live outside of Dallas County get sued! How stupid is this?
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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.** *
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***PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW. *
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