Doctor fired for refusing to provide nonemergency care for illegal immigrants.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/EDITORIAL/108270019/1013

What was he thinking?

 

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what was the hospital thinking?
We pay taxmoney with these buggers, who are leeches, illegal immigrants...and now they want nonemergency care?!!!!

It is time to take out all illegal immigrants once and for all.

 

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"Sacramento County knowingly violated state and federal laws, misappropriated taxpayer revenues and diverted funds designated for indigent citizens to pay for services delivered to illegal aliens,"

 

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"I've seen cases and case histories of patients who essentially have come up from Mexico for the express purpose of being treated here, and then leaving to return home," Dr. Rogers said. "I've watched illegal immigrants brazenly demand free, non-emergency health care that was meant for our poorest citizens.
I've heard them and their families complain. They feel entitled to it.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070827/EDITORIAL/108270019/1013

write to your senators people.

 

They should be treated, then deported. Their names, fingerprints, and any other info needed should be taken so that they can be immediately arrested and deported should they show up here again.

 

NO THEY SHOULD NOT BE TREATED. like unwanted acid rain they pour through city taking away that which has been built for centuries.

They will come back and other will come as well. Their identities cannot be tracked, they are illegal immigrants.

 

You can't deny emergency care. It's not right, illegal or no.

But I think the government should determine the immigration status of anyone they come into contact with who can't speak English. That means the police, the schools, the fire department, the welfare dept, the DMV. Anytime someone can't speak English, show me your papers.

If nothing else, it would motivate people to learn English.

 

madanthonywayne,

I agree that they should receive emergency treatment and that is as far as it should go, after that, or if it isn't emergency care their names, fingerprints, and any other info needed should be taken so that they can be immediately arrested and deported should they show up here again, and we should bill the Mexican Government for the services rendered.

 

it was a non emergency.
probably hiccups or a hangnail. possibly dandruff.

 

do to the hippocratic oath a doctor cannot refuse to treat someone on the basis of something th if they are or aren't a legal alien

 

Actually he wasn't fired for refusing to provide care for immigrants

And if you read on you get a good indication why he was really fired:

He was making his own rules regarding policy while that was not in his job description. Not a team player.

Clearly you cannot expect that a capitalist enterprise keeps employees that do not abide by the rules.

 

Does anyone see them as human beings?

 

That should be asked of the place they came from. The point is they are taking away from others who need the care and are also poor.

 

so those who need care and are poor are taking away from those who need care and are poor?

 

Well, sure. But even you realize that there are good people and bad people, don't you? I mean, murderers and rapists and child molesters are human beings, but what does that mean?? Don't you still think of them as "bad" people, as opposed to "good" people?

Baron Max

 

Hitler is a human too.

 

Whatever. This is just another right-wing editorial intended to demonize Mexicans.

Exactly, it's none of his business. Illegal immigration is a Federal issue.

 

I don't want illegals here. It is too damn easy to get a green card and there is no excuse. it's ILLEGAL.
But, I've been poor. I've had to take my child to the ER, with no insurance. I can't even imagine being turned away.

 

I think they would like that, a little dinner and dancing, perhaps a movie...then back to your place for some margaritas...

 

:yay: LOL