Protesters claim Northwestern Memorial Hospital refuses organ transplants to undocume
Protesters claim Northwestern Memorial Hospital refuses organ transplants to undocumented immigrants
Sunday, August 11, 2013
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Protesters marched seven miles from Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission to Northwestern Memorial Hospital while carrying caskets representing undocumented immigrants who have died because they were denied care by hospitals. (WLS Photo)
August 11, 2013 (CHICAGO) (WLS) -- Dozens of people march to Northwestern Memorial Hospital on Sunday, claiming they refuse to add undocumented immigrants to organ transplant lists.
The group marched seven miles from Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission to Northwestern Memorial Hospital while carrying caskets representing undocumented immigrants who have died because they were denied care by hospitals.
They say they shouldn't be denied critical health care just because they are uninsured.
"He call us and deny us, they require a social security number or insurance and that's not fair that they put up paper over our lives," said Blanca Gomez.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital says undocumented patients can be added to transplant lists.
Protestors say they have yet to see proof of a policy change.
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Illegal Aliens Demand Free Organ Transplants
August 20, 2013
Judicial Watch
Illegal immigrants have boldly demanded everything from civil rights in the U.S. to driver’s licenses and government benefits such as welfare and discounted tuition at public universities, so why stop there?
Now they want American taxpayers to finance their organ transplants! This is even more brazen than the discrimination lawsuits illegal aliens have filed against law enforcement agencies—both federal and local—in the U.S. over the years. To make their point, the illegal immigrants have gone on a hunger strike outside an Illinois hospital demanding free organ transplants for themselves and their fellow undocumented comrades.
This insanity is taking place outside a prestigious Chicago-area hospital, according to news reports, but it’s only a matter of time before it spreads nationwide. Dozens of demonstrators and hunger strikers have gathered outside the medical facility chanting through bullhorns and waving large signs to protest the hospital’s policy that patients must be in the U.S. legally to qualify for an organ transplant procedure. One large, yellow sign captured in a newspaper photo says “we are also human!”
All of the protestors are from Mexico, according to the news report, and all need either a liver or kidney transplant that they can’t afford to pay for. They obviously don’t have health insurance or they wouldn’t be staging this show. So the illegal aliens want Uncle Sam to step up the plate and pick up the tab. Kidney and liver transplants costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and could run into the millions if there are complications.
The U.S. government already spends upwards of $4 billion a year to provide the millions of illegal immigrant who live here with medical care, according to figures released by a nonpartisan organization dedicated to researching both legal and illegal immigration. Most of that money goes to hospital emergency rooms and free clinics that treat the uninsured.
This has created a huge burden for hospitals nationwide that get stuck with the exorbitant cost of treating uninsured illegal immigrants. A few years ago a Florida hospital spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to fight a lawsuit from an uninsured illegal immigrant returned to his native country after racking up a $1.5 million bill. The case involved a Guatemalan Mayan farm worker who was hospitalized for 3 ½ years at the Stuart facility with severe brain injuries sustained in a car wash.
After receiving a judge’s permission, the hospital put him on a plane back to Guatemala and a legal battle ensued. The same hospital also spent a substantial amount of money treating a brain damaged illegal immigrant from Mexico for two years and, in congressional testimony, the facility’s administrator said more than half of the hospital’s births were to illegal aliens
http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/20...n-transplants/
Prediction: Illegals will get what they want
Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com) Monday, August 26, 2013
A public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption says it is insane for illegal aliens to demand that American taxpayers foot the bill for their organ transplants.
Dozens of illegal aliens, reportedly all from Mexico, recently converged outside a prestigious Chicago-area medical facility to protest the hospital's policy that patients must be in the country legally to qualify for an organ transplant procedure. These operations could cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars, running into the millions if complications arise.
Fitton, Tom (Judicial Watch)The U.S. government already spends upwards of $4 billion a year to provide medical care to illegal aliens, so Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, is not surprised by the brazen way these illegals made their demands.
"It is insanity, but rational given our state of disarray on illegal aliens and their status here in the United States, where the law is being ignored," Fitton admits. "They are not being deported as they're supposed to be; President Obama has decided in large measure to stop deporting illegal aliens. They're at the point where they're demanding government subsidies for healthcare and other taxpayer-provided benefits."
While he thinks it is courageous for the Chicago hospital to refuse to cave to their demands, the Judicial Watch president believes the government will ultimately force hospitals to provide these expensive procedures to illegals.
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