Re: Man Waits In Emergency Room
Posted by:
WashingToneLocian
()
Date: March 13, 2008 02:05PM
Medicaid? Wrote:
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> Washingtonlooniebin: and you other liberals….
>
First, I'm not a liberal.
> As I said, both children….one legal…one illegal,
> received excellent health care from Fairfax
> Hospital. And, I would always support taking care
> of all children…including poor illegal ones.
>
You don't know if the 3 year old is illegal. If he was born in the U.S., by law he is a U.S. citizen. Given that he was 3, I would say chances are pretty good he was born here.
> My issue was more regarding the apparent absence
> of oversight of our tax dollars being utilized for
> the “illegal” child as compared to the obvious
> strict oversight by my insurance company.
Your insurance company is cheap, not strict.
So,
> now, you want to say, the issue is with my bad
> insurance company rather than the social services
> we so easily hand out…whatever…that’s apples and
> oranges.
>
> You can believe what you want….the kid was
> illegal, as was the family, and after spending 7
> days living at the hospital living with them, I
> feel completely confident in my representations.
>
As I said, the family may be illegal, but it doesn't mean the kid is. If the kid was born here, you are bitching about a poor American kid, not an illegal.
> Washingtonlooniebin…..wouldn’t you prefer our tax
> dollars go to inner city kids… In other words,
> how about we take care of our own first…..? Do you
> have a problem with that?
>
As I mentioned previously, the kid could technically be the poor inner city kid you are talking about if he was born here.
> As Fairfax County continues to appear to be “
> Illegal friendly”, and the population surges, the
> strain on our resources will become more evident
> and drastic. Services to the poor, born here and
> legally here, will lessen.
>
If the family was using Medicaid or Emergency Medicaid, the funds didn't necessarily come from Fairfax County.
> You do see that, right?
>
Nope.
> Oh, and by the way, glad you didn’t have cancer.
Thanks. That was nice of you.