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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

From: Marie McHarry mmcharry AT gmail.com

Illegal immigrants are prohibited from buying into any of the offered
health insurance program. However, anyone who shows up at an emergency
room will be treated, as has always been the case.
So, Lynda, do you want to deny accident victims treatment? At the
present time, we stabilize them and then ship them home. What would
you prefer?
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I'm going to jump in on this one.

The problem is that the current law - the one that FORCES hospitals to treat 
illegal immigrants who have no intention of paying the bill is flat out 
wrong.  It is forcing hospitals to book unneccessary loses and taxpayers to 
pick up the difference.  It also raises the costs to payers.

This isn't much different than when CONgress FORCED banks to lend to those 
they knew could not repay - and we all know the outcome of that now - 
systemic worldwide banking collapse.  (Cause and effect.)

You don't fix one bad law by adding on another bad law.
  
The cure is for CONgress to STOP using FORCE against hospitals - allow 
hospitals to deny treatment to illegals (unless the illegal shows up with 
cash in pocket, or some means of paying the individual hospital will accept). 
 Let hospitals decide individually how many charity cases they can handle, if 
any.


I'm not going to address citizens at the moment............ as I just lost 
quite a bit of text....... and too tired now.. 



Today there were hospital representatives and doctors present, and they 
certainly did weigh in on this issue.


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"It's when they fail to save what little is left that the flames will begin 
in earnest." ~ Ray Zentz 



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I suppose I should weigh in on this.
First, I should say that I was probably the only one who was not shocked
by Mr. Wilson's outburst.  It is the kind of stuff I hear everyday.
Even the Reps are frustrated by the 'dance' being performed on a lot of
issues.  It is hard to know what to believe as things continue to
change.(goes to 'which change should we believe?<g>)  We pointed out
earlier on this list that there were multiple copies of this healthcare
bill, revisions of former bills, etc.  Each is slightly different and no
one really knows which one is the one that might become law.  Words are
important in these things.  I haven't read the bill, so I will let
others determine whether or not illegal aliens are covered.

Joe Wilson got caught up in the moment and forget where he was,
obviously.  I understand his outburst, but think he was very
disrespectful and wrong.  It was not the time nor the place.  I'm glad
he apologized, and I'm glad that President Obama took this in stride and
  has allowed it to slide.  I'm impressed by his reaction, but frankly,
I'm afraid that it is only a temporary thing.  He said he wouldn't
investigate the CIA, and he is doing that.  Will he later rake Wilson
over the coals in a political squeeze, or is it truly, as we say, over,
done with, gone?  My guess is that President Obama will let it go, but
that Pelosi and company will keep the disrespect alive and in the
forefront of people's minds.

The greatest revenge, is of course, the contributions to his political
opponent, but we don't know where that money came from.  If the mood in
SC is anything like the mood in rural Georgia, I'd wager that the
contributions did not come from Mr. Wilson's constituents.  If someone
could find those contributions online, I'd sure be interested to see
where they came from.

Tonight on the news, they showed similar incidents of loss of decorum
from democratic institutions around the world, I suppose trying to play
it down.  IMO, the decorum is one reason why this country is great, and
I feel that many countries got a chuckle out of our baseness.  While I
don't think Wilson should resign because I believe he was representing
the beliefs of his constituents, I do believe he should have to some
kind of class or public training about anger management and respect and
the political process.

Marie, why did you only want half hour?



Marie McHarry wrote:
> That SC representative, Joe Wilson (no relation to Valerie Plame) who
>  shouted "you lie" when Obama said that the health insurance plan
> would not be open to illegal immigrants, ended up raising $11K in 2
> hours for Rob Miller, his opponent in the next election. Ya gotta
> love the entertainment provided by the Washington Whorehouse, er, our
> duly elected representatives.
>
> Marie, who only heard about a half hour of the speech but it did
> include Mr. Wilson's epithet

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