Thread: Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.

This article illustrates the problems and burdens placed on our health care system by illegal aliens. These are costs that somebody has to pay for. Since the doctors and administrators at the hospitals aren't voluntarily doing it, YOU are. After reading this article, be sure to see Immigration Gumballs which graphically portrays the underlying folly of our compassion.
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Deported in Coma, Saved Back in U.S.
DEBORAH SONTAG
November 9, 2008 at 5:14 a.m.
http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/200 ... ck_in_U_S_

GILA BEND, Ariz. — Soon after Antonio Torres, a husky 19-year-old farmworker, suffered catastrophic injuries in a car accident last June, a Phoenix hospital began making plans for his repatriation to Mexico.

Mr. Torres was comatose and connected to a ventilator. He was also a legal immigrant whose family lives and works in the purple alfalfa fields of this southwestern town. But he was uninsured. So the hospital disregarded the strenuous objections of his grief-stricken parents and sent Mr. Torres on a four-hour journey over the California border into Mexicali.

For days, Mr. Torres languished in a busy emergency room there, but his parents, Jesús and Gloria Torres, were not about to give up on him. Although many uninsured immigrants have been repatriated by American hospitals, few have seen their journey take the U-turn that the Torreses engineered for their son. They found a hospital in California willing to treat him, loaded him into a donated ambulance and drove him back into the United States as a potentially deadly infection raged through his system.

By summer’s end, despite the grimmest of prognoses from the hospital in Phoenix, Mr. Torres had not only survived but thrived. Newly discharged from rehabilitation in California, he was haltingly walking, talking and, hoisting his cane to his shoulder like a rifle, performing a silent, comic, effortful imitation of a marching soldier.

“In Arizona, apparently, they see us as beasts of burden that can be dumped back over the border when we have outlived our usefulness,â€

I'm sorry, but I didn't even bother reading this entire article.

Instead of demonstrating how "callous" the US healthcare system is toward illegal aliens, it would be more appropriate for this article to be viewed as demonstrating just how much Mexico SUCKS in terms of it's treatment of it's own citizens.

Leaving this Mexican national, who had just come from the best medical care system in the world, to lie in an emergency ward, uncared for, for days ,to develop an infection which almost killed him and all because he couldn't afford to pay the bill and didn't have insurance............

Being such a superior country and all you'd think Mexico would be capable of so much better than that.

[quote]“In Arizona, apparently, they see us as beasts of burden that can be dumped back over the border when we have outlived our usefulness,â€

They are not going to pay the bill either.

Back when America was founded, those people would become indentured servants until the bill was paid or would have been placed in a debtors prison. It doesn't matter if you are not a citizen with a social security card and a credit rateing to worry about.

They act like only illegal aliens get sent home. Many Americans leave the hospital for in-home care, Hospice or nursing homes.

They need to take care of their own and pay the bill.

Dixie