Stuart clinic cuts free services for illegal immigrants, will require documentation (medical, health care)

[JDubsMom]

In at least one case — Luis Alberto Jimenez, an illegal immigrant who called Martin Memorial home for years, at a cost of $1.5 million — emergency care turned into long-term care because the patient had nowhere else to go. That case was rare, Samples said, but does illustrate the larger problem health-care facilities across the country are struggling with — how to treat patients who are in the country illegally.

Since September, Volunteers in Medicine is only treating the 100 undocumented patients already enrolled in their program. Volunteers In Medicine's $550,000 annual budget can't pay the bills Martin Memorial used to, Executive Director Mary Fields said. Without those tests, doctors can't really treat a patient.

"It's very difficult to tell a doctor to look at a chart different for one patient than for another," Fields said. "To tell someone, 'You can get this, but not that.' That's really hard. You can't do that to someone."

Since the new policy went into effect Sept. 12, Volunteers In Medicine still has a month-and-a-half-long waiting list for patient enrollment.

All new patients will have to show proof of citizenship or legal immigration status along with meeting the income, insurance and Martin County residency requirements.

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The clinic's medical director, Dr. Howard Voss, said he sympathizes both with patients and Martin Memorial. Word has gotten out among immigrants — even those still in their native countries — that Martin Memorial is a place to get care, Voss said, and the health system can't absorb the cost forever.

"This hospital cannot be the acute care center for a whole nation of Mexicans or Guatemalans," Voss said.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/oct/04/clinic-cuts-free-services-for-illegal-immigrants/?printer=1/


Dr. Voss for POTUS . . the hammer continues to FALL . . .yeah baby that's what I'm talkin' about.

[Arizona Bound]

I'm sooo happy!

[jeffScism]

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/htm...7_0202_ZO.html

Plyler v. Doe, is a supreme court case which granted full citizenship rights to illegal aliens in the USA.

This case by redefining terms used in the Constitution extends full citizenship rights to any person in the physical United States. It eliminates the difference between illegal aliens and citizens.

Redefined are the Constitutional terms "person", "Subject to the jurisdiction of" and "citizen"

"Subject to the jurisdiction of" had previously referenced being under allegiance to a nation. NOW it means "standing in a locality".
"person" used to reference one of "We the People of the United States" in other words Citizens. Now it is to be used "in the broadest sense" and further "illegal aliens are persons under any reasonable definition".
Citizenship is a class, and under the 14th Amendment the ruling declares making class distinctions unconstitutional, thus a Illegal alien has all the same rights and privileges of a citizen.

The judges ruled that it is illegal to offer services to a citizen and deny those same services to an illegal alien.

Conversly if this is the case, ANY service offered FREE to illegal aliens should be offered equally free to US citizens, BY LAW.

[Isitmeorarethingsnuts?]

Thank God someone is standing up for common sense.

[Tall_Rep]

Obama and Holder will take steps to block this action...count on it. They want to INSURE that the influx of illegal immigrants continues unabated. More illegals = more votes down the road when they give them amnesty.

[Eleanora1]

Mexico has national health insurance. If illegals want access to health care services let them go home and get it.