Comments on: How hospitals deal with uninsured immigrants http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:59:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured.html/comment-page-1#comment-88022 Anonymous Sun, 09 Nov 2008 22:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured-immigrants.html#comment-88022 In our states Medicaid program, they will pay the hospital to provide emergency care. When the patient is stable to transfer to a hospital in their own country, then payment is stopped. Does an uninsured American get any more than this in other countries? I doubt it. <br/><br/>I have no problem with sending them to their lawful home as soon as they are stable to transfer. China is run by the communist party which claims it is the state's responsibility to give to each according to their need. it is for them to sort out the long term care of a Chinese citizen. Likewise with Mexico, a nation ruled by a socialist revolutionary party for nearly a hundred years. <br/><br/>If the options at home are not satisfactory, that is a bone they need to pick with their fellow citizens. Do other nations, morally offended at lack of universal care in the US, volunteer unrestricted amounts of their treasure to make up the gap? I think not. In our states Medicaid program, they will pay the hospital to provide emergency care. When the patient is stable to transfer to a hospital in their own country, then payment is stopped. Does an uninsured American get any more than this in other countries? I doubt it.

I have no problem with sending them to their lawful home as soon as they are stable to transfer. China is run by the communist party which claims it is the state’s responsibility to give to each according to their need. it is for them to sort out the long term care of a Chinese citizen. Likewise with Mexico, a nation ruled by a socialist revolutionary party for nearly a hundred years.

If the options at home are not satisfactory, that is a bone they need to pick with their fellow citizens. Do other nations, morally offended at lack of universal care in the US, volunteer unrestricted amounts of their treasure to make up the gap? I think not.

]]> By: The Happy Hospitalist http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured.html/comment-page-1#comment-88020 The Happy Hospitalist Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured-immigrants.html#comment-88020 I thought you had to be held against your will be be kidnapped. Certainly, the uninsured are free to leave the hospital at any time. I thought you had to be held against your will be be kidnapped. Certainly, the uninsured are free to leave the hospital at any time.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured.html/comment-page-1#comment-88017 Anonymous Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/11/how-hospitals-deal-with-uninsured-immigrants.html#comment-88017 As sympathetic as I am towards a hospital's need to stay afloat, the fact of the matter is that a hospital is not an immigration agent. Any uninsured patient who is threatened with deportation, without legal recourse, should be able to block this by claiming kidnapping. As sympathetic as I am towards a hospital’s need to stay afloat, the fact of the matter is that a hospital is not an immigration agent. Any uninsured patient who is threatened with deportation, without legal recourse, should be able to block this by claiming kidnapping.

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