WELCOME TO AMERICA! FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS! President George W. Bush and the US Congress feels your pain! You can now break into the USA and receive free medical care in our finest hospitals. There's no need to worry about paying because America will take care of you and your family for absolutely no charge at all. All you have to do is get past the border guard and President Bush will see to it That you can receive free medical care at any Emergency Room in America. George W. Bush is considering dropping the border with mexico and making it just our 51st state. He loves Mexicans more than he loves his fellow Americans. So, welcome to America all illegal aliens! The USA now has unlimited funds to give to the entire world. Bush and Congress have decided that its not fair that Americans have so much, so we are going to provide free health care for the entire world, if you can break into the USA. One thing however, do not come to America legally because if you do, you will have to pay for your medical care, but if you break into the USA, President Bush and the US Republican congress will give you free health care. All you have to do is go to the nearest hospital emergency room for immediate and free health care. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For the complete article, see the link below: SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens Treatment money for border states Tuesday, May 10, 2005 By ROBERT PEAR THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said yesterday that it would start paying hospitals and doctors for providing emergency care to illegal immigrants. The money, totaling $1 billion, will be available for services provided from today through September 2008. Congress provided the money as part of the 2003 law that expanded Medicare to cover prescription drugs, but the new payments have nothing to do with the Medicare program. Members of Congress from border states had sought the money. They said treatment of illegal immigrants imposed a huge financial burden on many hospitals, which are required to provide emergency care to patients who need it, regardless of their immigration status or ability to pay. Under the new program, hospitals are supposed to ask patients for documents to substantiate payment claims. But Dr. Mark McClellan, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said a hospital should not directly ask a patient "if he or she is an undocumented alien." Instead, he said, hospitals can try to establish a patient's status by analyzing the answers to "indirect questions": Is the person eligible for Medicaid? (If so, payment is generally not available under the new program.) Has the person reported a foreign place of birth? Does the person have a border-crossing card like those issued to Mexican citizens? Does the person have a foreign pbuttport, a foreign driver's license or a foreign identification card? The Bush administration abandoned a proposal that would have required many hospitals to ask patients if they were U.S. citizens or legal immigrants. "In no circumstances are hospitals required to ask people about their citizenship status," McClellan said yesterday. Hospital executives and immigrant rights groups had said such questions would deter illegal immigrants from seeking care and could lead to serious public health problems by increasing the spread of communicable diseases. Cecilia Munoz, a vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a Latino civil rights group, said the new requirements were an improvement over the original proposal but would still discourage some immigrants from seeking treatment.
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