NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUR HEALTH CARE COSTS.
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 Parkland Hospital in Dallas, TX
 Unbelievable!

 Parkland  Memorial Hospital in Dallas , Texas is a fairly famous 
 institution
 and for a variety of reasons:

 1. John F. Kennedy died there in 1963

 2. Lee Harvey Oswald died there shortly after

 3. Jack Ruby-who killed Oswald, died there a few years later.

 On the flip side, Parkland is also home to the second busiest maternity ward
 in the country with almost 16,000 new babies arriving each year.  
(That's almost 44 per day---every day)!

 A recent patient survey indicated that 70 percent of the women who gave
 birth at Parkland in the first three months of 2006 were illegal 
 immigrants.
 That's 11,200 anchor babies born every year just in Dallas!!!

 According to the article, the hospital spent $70.7 million delivering  15,938
 babies in 2004 but managed to end up with almost $8 million dollars in
 surplus funding. Medicaid kicked in $34.5 million, Dallas County taxpayers
 kicked in $31.3 million and the feds tossed in another $9.5 million.

 The average patient in Parkland in maternity wards is 25 years old, 
 married and giving birth to her second child. She is also an illegal immigrant. By
 law, pregnant women cannot be denied medical care based on their 
 immigration status or ability to pay.

 OK, fine. That doesn't mean they should receive better care than everyday,
 middle-class American citizens.. But at Parkland Hospital , they do. 
 Parkland Memorial Hospital has nine prenatal clinics.  NINE!!!

 The Dallas Morning News article followed a Hispanic woman who was a 
 patient at one of the clinics and pregnant with her third child---her previous two
 were also born at Parkland. Her first two deliveries were free and the
 Mexican native was grateful because it would have cost$200 to have them in
 Mexico. This time, the hospital wants her to pay $10 per visit and $100 
 for the delivery but she was unsure if she could come up with the money. Not
 that it matters, the hospital won't turn her away.. 
(I wonder why they  even bother asking at this point.)

 "How long has this been going on? What are the long-term effects?

 Well, another subject of the article was born at Parkland in 1986 shortly
 after her mother entered the US illegally - now she is having her own 
 child there as well. (That's right; she's technically a US citizen.)

 These women receive free prenatal care including medication, nutrition,
 birthing classes and child care classes. They also get freebies such as 
 car seats, bottles, diapers and formula.

 Most of these things are available to American citizens as well, but only
 for low-income applicants, and even then, the red tape involved is almost
 insurmountable.

 Because these women are illegal immigrants, they do not have to provide 
 any sort of legitimate identification - no proof of income. An American 
 citizen would have to provide a social security number which would reveal their
 annual income - an illegal immigrant need only claim to be poor and the
 hospital must take them at their word.

 Parkland Hospital offers indigent care to Dallas County residents who earn
 less than $40,000 per year.. (They also have to prove that they did not
 refuse health coverage at their current job.. Yeah, the 'free' care is not
 so easy for Americans.)

 There are about 140 patients who received roughly $4 million dollars for
 un-reimbursed medical care. As it turns out, they did not qualify for free
 treatment because they resided outside of Dallas County so the hospital is
 going to sue them!  Illegal's get it all free!  But U. S citizens who live
 outside of Dallas County get sued!  How stupid is this?

 As if that isn't annoying enough, the illegal immigrant patients are
 actually complaining about hospital staff not speaking Spanish. In this AP
 story, the author speaks with a woman who is upset that she had to  translate
 comments from the hospital staff into Spanish for her husband. The doctor
 was trying to explain the situation to the family and the mother was forced
 to translate for her husband who only spoke Spanish.
 This was apparently a great injustice to her.

 In an attempt to create a Spanish-speaking staff, Parkland Hospital is now
 providing incentives in the form of extra pay for applicants who speak
 Spanish.. Additionally, medical students at the University of Texas
 Southwestern for which Parkland Hospital is the training facility will now
have a Spanish language requirement added to their already jammed-packed
 curriculum. No other school in the country boasts such a ridiculous
 multi-semester (multicultural) requirement.

 This needs wide circulation particularly to our "employees" in Congress.

 Remember that this is about only ONE hospital in Dallas, Texas. There are
 many more hospitals across our country that must also deal with this.

 PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY U.S. CITIZEN YOU KNOW.
 Check it out at snopes. 
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/parkland.asp