A Texas Hospital
Received this in an email:
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's 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.
That's right !!!! 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 US
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 (multi-cultural)
requirement.
(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide
circulation particularly to our 'employees' in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital in Dallas,
Texas. There are many more hospitals across our country that
als o have to deal with this.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
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's 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.
That's right !!!! 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 US
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 (multi-cultural)
requirement.
(Sorry for the length, but this needs wide
circulation particularly to our 'employees' in Congress.)
Remember that this is only ONE hospital in Dallas,
Texas. There are many more hospitals across our country that
als o have to deal with this.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
If you want to verify accuracy:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp
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