Kevin Sack of the New York Times offers "Hospital Falters as Refuge for Illegal Immigrants" (link) about a hospital in Atlanta (Grady Memorial Hospital) that closed their outpatient dialysis clinic due to losing millions of dollars providing unreimbursed care to illegal aliens. To a certain extent, Sack is agitating to include illegal aliens in Obama healthcare which, if the NYT would actually think it through, is an unworkable solution. There are hundreds of millions of people around the world with serious medical conditions, and if only a small fraction were in effect lured here by lax healthcare policies whatever system was in place would quickly be swamped. Sack is also describing a situation that the NYT and many others helped bring about through their opposition to enforcement of our immigration laws.
The correct public policy - the only workable solution - is to encourage the patients to return home, which is what the hospital is paying them to do, after being threatened with a lawsuit. (No, really). "Kind-hearted" "liberals" can then put pressure on those countries to take care of their own people instead of in effect sending them to the U.S. to take advantage of our largess, and taking resources away from U.S. citizens.
In most immigration articles there's always, in a matter of speaking, someone hiding off stage. In the case of PIIPP articles, the people hiding off stage are the parents; reporters never bother asking them what they were thinking in bringing young children here illegally. In the case of this article, those hiding off stage - with the assistance of Kevin Sack - include: the employers of the illegal aliens (who are "privatizing the profits" from their illegal alien workers but "socializing the costs" of those workers); the foreign governments who in effect encourage their citizens to move to the U.S. rather than take care of them; and the non-profit organizations that promote the same unworkable policies at the NYT instead of promoting the workable solution of encouraging foreign countries to take care of their own people.
Sat, 11/21/2009 - 11:45 · Importance: 4
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