Thread: IL - Illegal Alien W/Bill of $530,000 Cancer Treatments Dies

This is the story of that illegal alien from Illinois that cost us $530,000 in cancer treatments. She went back to Mexico to die, but we paid for it.

It's related to this article:
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-149697-530.html+000

Just to be clear, I'm not really happy she died, just the idea of illegal aliens spunging off of us when so many legal American's are suffering.

EDIT UPDATE: I corrected the poor grammer in the title of the article. I'm sorry about that.

Here's the current story:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,7626342.story

Send the bill to Mexico. They are the ones who should be responsible for this.

Even if we do not put the interest of the American taxpayer first think of the factory that could have been built with that money in her hometown.

With few options for long-term health care available to the estimated 11.6 million illegal immigrants in the United States, her odyssey also illustrated the despair of many such patients with chronic illnesses and hefty medical bills.

Excuse me, they make it sound like it's guarenteed to citizens and it's not, or that Americans don't suffer with hefty medical bills. I'm so sick of them acting like we are depriving just this group of something the rest of us have. We don't have it either. Even if it was "socialized medicine", they could have already determined the treatment was too expensive for minimul success and decided she wasn't worth saving.

I'm sorry she died, but here we go again, money spent out on her with a phony ID, which leads to more rationing and less care for our own people.

Illegal Immigrant Used Stolen Identity to Get Hospital Care

Mariana de la Torre crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in the trunk of a car soon after her boyfriend beat her and threatened to kill her. Several months arriving in the U.S., she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. She used an ID purchased on the black market to get roughly $530,000 worth of hospital care, some of which was paid for by Medicaid.

The Chicago Tribune told her story in a recent front-page article last month, and ran her obit this morning. She died back in Mexico at age 28.

Her story illustrated how medical identity theft works: de la Torre took the name and Social Security number of a person who is serving a three-year prison term in Texas for robbery, the Trib said. She then used that information to get care at Trinity Medical Center, University of Chicago Medical Center and St. Francis Medical Center, all in Illinois.

At the same time, it demonstrated the struggles of illegal immigrants in the U.S. health-care system. "We would not like the story to unwillingly fuel the myth that immigrants abuse the U.S. public health system," wrote Lino Santacruz Moctezuma, of the Mexican consulate in Chicago, in a letter to the editor published in the Trib.

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2009/04/08/ ... ital-care/