June 16, 2008Martin Memorial Medical Center in Stuart Florida is indicative of 51 other Florida community hospitals who are also financially struggling or failing and who are facing bankruptcy due to the high cost of treating illegal immigrants (and paying ludicrous illegal alien lawsuit financial settlements) - that vast majority of which never pay for the medical treatment they or their family receives.
Stuart Florida geographical area has many typical red flags that hospital and city administrators should have seen as a reason for the hospital's pending bankruptcy.
1) Nearby Jupiter Florida is considered a "sanctuary city" whose pro illegal anti law enforcement policies were recently exposed by a Florida lawman.
2)The local St. Peter Catholic Church encourages and supports illegal immigration into the area.
3) A taxpayer funded "hiring hall" was opened in Jupiter Florida - with the encouragement of the Catholic Charities & against the wishes of local citizens (video here) . Thus they city provided a taxpayer funded site for lawbreakers - (that the community would likely never consider or fund for their own American teenagers) and produced a draw for even more illegals to move into the Martin Memorial Hospital area:
"The El Sol Neighborhood Resource Center was the town's solution for stopping ''migrant workers'' from lining the streets each day to wait for employers to drive by and hire them. Sometimes as many as 100 ''day laborers'' gathered each morning. Neighborhood residents complained they blocked traffic, scared people and created a public nuisance. So, backed by legal opinions that said the center did not violate any laws, the town of Jupiter bought a building next to town hall and the police station for $1.9 million and encouraged Catholic Charities, along with the migrant advocacy group Corn Maya and community volunteers, to lease it for $1 a year, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel."
4) Florida (an other US states) agricultural businesses, such as citrus and sugar growers, balk at having to go through the steps for legal immigrant "guest worker" labor and providing transportation, housing, etc for legal laborers. Thus they seem to prefer to continue attracting and hiring cheap illegal immigrant labor. But they also feel increasingly compelled to go the "legal" route since illegal immigration has become a "hot button issue".
Goldstein estimated that U.S. Agriculture companies have 2.5 million foreign workers, about 60 percent of whom are illegal....Local (FL) citrus growers who have recently begun using H-2A agreed that, despite the burden of red tape, the program is the only viable alternative (from using illegal immigrants) for recruiting a stable labor force....
5) According to CBS news - across the USA there are at least 300,000 "anchor babies" born each year - clearly many of these babies are born - without payment to hospitals - and ultimately at taxpayer's expense. Florida hospitals undoubtedly are affected. Also "the latest estimated costs of educating the children of illegal aliens, many of whom were anchor babies, is out and it is set at an astounding $28.6 billion per year to the taxpayers of the United States. - Floridian taxpayers are undoubtedly paying their "fair" share.
A recent Rasmussen survey shows that American's opinion, toward illegal immigration, has little changed since last year's overwhelming public rejection of the proposed McCain Kennedy (amnesty) legislation. "63% believe that border security is more important than amnesty". Americans still overwhelmingly welcome LEGAL immigrants. Yet, there is plenty of outrage at illegal immigrants who flagrantly break US laws as well as many produce anchor babies who allow them to tap into taxpayer paid welfare benefits.
The cost of illegal immigration is high - see here and the cost of jailing illegal immigrants for both immigration status as well as crimes committed other than violation of immigration laws is astronomical - a quick search will produce countless states and cities that are buckling under the cost of illegal alien incarceration.
Why should more taxpayer be further penalized by having to provide their hard earned money to be used to bail out Florida hospitals? Especially when the crisis is directly caused by the clear dereliction of duty of the localities city officials who refused to demand that US immigration laws be enforced? Many like Marco Rubio, below, want to hide the deleterious effects of rampant illegal immigration. It should also be noted that the illegal immigrant is not faultless. The vast majority are adults who willingly and knowingly break US laws to sneak into the USA consistently do not want to take responsibility for their own bad choices. So again the question is asked - why should we?
Feds Ignore Hospital’s Illegal Immigrant ReportsFri, 06/13/2008 - 11:50 — Judicial Watch Blog
A Florida hospital administrator whose facility is overwhelmed with the exorbitant cost of treating illegal immigrants told state lawmakers that federal authorities usually ignore when the hospital reports illegal immigrants.
Testifying before a state House committee, the frustrated Martin Memorial Medical Center official also told legislators that the hospital has spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to fight a lawsuit from an uninsured illegal immigrant returned to his native country after racking up a $1.5 million bill.
The lawsuit has further burdened the south Florida facility already overwhelmed with sick and uninsured illegal immigrants. It involves a Guatemalan Mayan farm worker who was hospitalized for 3 ½ years at the Stuart facility with severe brain injuries sustained in a car wash.
After receiving a judge’s permission, the hospital put him on a plane back to Guatemala in 2003 and it has been fighting a costly legal battle since. The case was appealed in 2006 and is still pending in south Florida’s Martin County. This means the hospital’s legal bills will continue mounting.
The facility has also spent a substantial amount of money treating a brain damaged illegal immigrant from Mexico for the past two years and officials estimate that half of the 2,170 births last year were to illegal immigrants. That, of course, means no insurance and no money to pay for the costly medical tab.
The recent House testimony got practically no media coverage and was attended by only a few people at the state capitol in Tallahassee. After all, Florida’s House Speaker, Marco Rubio, is an ardent defender of illegal immigrants who certainly doesn’t want to publicize the dark side of illegal immigration or the huge toll it’s having on his state.
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http://theopinionator.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/illegal-immigra.html
Marty's Note:What bullshit....they could begin saving money by firing this whiny, efficient cunt's (if Dr. Strangelove, McCain, can use the word in public, so can I) ass. $100M is just about what the Gators athletic department brings in..I'll bet a dime this efficient diabolical machine of an administrator couldn't tell me what fraction 100M of the State's $90BILLION in revenues represents... and we are talking about LIVES here, not some fucking carpeted weight room for a bunch of fucking goons that can't understand "see Spot run", like Ned and the First Reader. This kind of shit is appalling...especially for anyone contending they are Christians. That the wealthiest society in the history of civilization has assholes bitching about the cost of keeping a veritable handful of poor devils alive...while spending untold BILLIONS of dollars to effectively splatter kids' brains about like tapioca from 40,000' and 15 miles out of sight, is the most disgusting indictment of a fucked up hypocritical country's moral compass that I can imagine. Let's just teach our God fearing, starched and prim nurses to suffocate these fucking bastards...no injections, just a no-cost, quiet, pillow suffocation will do the trick...preferably on Sunday mornings when the hospitals are bereft of visitors and week day activity...everyone is in Church. Then simply wheel the bodies to the incinerator chute at the end of the hall...another savings, no cremation fees! God damn! That cost effective analysis class I took at Yale would be hooahing and buying me beer all night down at Morrie's. Is this a great country, or what?
