Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals NYTimes

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Bill and Dave,

Yeah, I was just kind of surprised to learn that hospitals were engaged in this transportation activity as I didn't know about it. I guess speaking to my friend in Chicago who's hospital was mentioned it's not uncommon at all depending on your population base. I didn't see it as a right or wrong thing (well the "kidnapping" part didn't seem good) but as kind of a dilemma for those involved. While in theory it seems clear cut, in reality I bet it seems like once you start to provide anything you can seem kind of stuck. You know, you WERE doing this, and you HAVE BEEN doing this, so how to decide exactly when you're NOT going to keep doing it. No good deed goes unpunished. We've apparently had a Chinese man as an in-patient for over two years because administrators closed many of the chronic care beds and there is nowhere, no one and no way to transfer him.

Rob Smith

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From: trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org [mailto:trauma-list-bounces at trauma.org] On Behalf Of William Bromberg
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:49 AM
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Subject: Re: Immigrants Deported, by U.S. Hospitals NYTimes

My wife broke her leg in Germany on  a high school student exchange
program — the German ED required $75 (equivalent) cash before they
touched her because she wasn't a German national. Only in America would
people get exercised over the failure to spend millions of taxpayer
dollars on non-citizens.

Bill Bromberg

>>> <bensonblues at comcast.net> 8/11/2008 4:10 AM >>>
Wow. That was a story. I sleep well at night knowing that every time I
get my passport stamped that the host country will spend a half of
million dollars if I befall an accident before sending me home. Sorry.
DB
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