A tale of survival .... (medical, health care, Mexicans, citizen)

[Minethatbird]

as well as an anecdotal example of why California is in such a financial mess.

Man set to go home today after more than year at Fresno hospital - Local - fresnobee.com (http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/01/03/2669593/man-will-leave-fresno-hospital.html - broken link)

Man set to go home today after more than year at Fresno hospital
His was longest acute-care hospital stay.

By Barbara Anderson - The Fresno Bee

Tuesday, Jan. 03, 2012 | 10:43 PM


Doctors say Marco Antonio Fuentes is well enough to go home today.

At last.

Fuentes has spent 374 days at Community Regional Medical Center, the longest uninterrupted stay by a patient at the Fresno acute-care hospital, according to staff recollection.

"God has helped me to make it in here and to make it out of here," Fuentes said softly from the edge of his hospital bed Tuesday.

Doctors struggled to keep him alive since Fuentes was admitted to the hospital Dec. 26, 2010, with an excruciating belly ache.
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The reporter can be reached at banderson@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6310.

[Eleanora1]

Mexico has national health insurance. There was literally no reason to let this Mexican stay here, let alone let him run up over a million in medical bills. I particularly loathe the part where he's been living here since 1997 yet still speaks almost no English. Millions of our own citizenry do without health care yet Mexicans think nothing of walking across our border without permission and demanding we pay for THEIR health bills.

Disgusting.