The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that about 59 percent of the 11.9 million illegal aliens living in the United States have no health insurance, making up about 15 percent of the nation's uninsured. Hospitals receiving Medicaid funds must provide emergency care for anyone who needs it & as often as they need it even if they are illegal aliens.
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Most of you will think me heartless and cruel, but I feel that we need to limit the amount of publicly funded medical care we provide for illegal immigrants here in America. I truly feel for those who legitimately need our help, but we can't be responsible for all the world's needs while ignoring our own citizens. As a first responder, I've seen first hand the abuse of the medical system here in America. Citizens with health insurance wait in lines to be treated while illegals receive treatment ahead of them because of a technicality. You can't refuse service in an emergency room if the patient arrives in an ambulance, and the ambulance can't refuse service to anyone who requests it. A system designed to provide for life saving care for those who otherwise couldn't afford it has been abused to allow for free care to anyone who know how to play the system. Far too often I'm called to a home for a medical emergency only to find yet another minor, non threatening case where the patient could have easily gone to the hospital on their own and avoided the ambulance entirely, but chose to call one anyway because they knew how to play the system. Someone has to pay for that ambulance ride and it's not going to be an illegal without insurance. We must secure our boarders, if we don't we will eventually follow in the footsteps of history and succumb to the slow bleed that threatens to bleed us dry.
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