Way to go Parkland !!

[BC_Club]

Dallas hospital plans to bill Mexico
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 9, 2006

http://washtimes.com/national/20060708-114247-7891r.htm

Way to go Parkland !!! I hear over and over again from citizens in Dallas who are fed up with other folks from outside Dallas County coming to Parkland for free health care. I am tired of paying for other people. It's enough I have to pay for cowboy themed sheets for The Dallas School District :angryfire

[X Factor]

Mexico will never pay, and more than likely laugh at Dallas County. So they are wasting resources and money even trying to bill Mexico.

[kenc]

No..... they are getting tons of great press for free...this is on Drudge and other news sites. They are trying to make a point. This is more about getting attention in Washington and Austin than Mexico City.

[gc]

^ Word.

[sogod]

Haha, excellent. Hopefully other hospitals will do the same.

[Texan#1]

Great! If they pay up then the hospital taxes on properties in Dallas county will go down!

[grantboston]

^I wouldn't get your hopes up about Mexico forking over any cash. It's a political statement that seems to be getting a lot of press. From that point, I suppose it's a success. However, I don't think that will actually stop anyone [regardless of immigration status] from using the facilities there.

[mdunlap1]

Dallas hospital plans to bill Mexico
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 9, 2006

http://washtimes.com/national/20060708-114247-7891r.htm

Way to go Parkland !!! I hear over and over again from citizens in Dallas who are fed up with other folks from outside Dallas County coming to Parkland for free health care. I am tired of paying for other people. It's enough I have to pay for cowboy themed sheets for The Dallas School District :angryfire

So... instead of billing the patients, you support the hospital billing completely unrelated human beings that work for a government that claims authority over an area of land where the patients once lived?

Why don't you just oppose being forced to pay for anyone's healthcare? Seems a lot more consistent, imho.

[MustangMonkey]

So... instead of billing the patients, you support the hospital billing completely unrelated human beings that work for a government that claims authority over an area of land where the patients once lived?

Why don't you just oppose being forced to pay for anyone's healthcare? Seems a lot more consistent, imho.


I belive the patients are billed first, but many times they cannot pay. In general governments try to take care of poeple who don't have the means to support themselves, kind of like a backup insurance company if something bad happens to individuals that is beond their controll.

[mdunlap1]

In general governments try to take care of poeple who don't have the means to support themselves, kind of like a backup insurance company if something bad happens to individuals that is beond their controll.

Or so they claim.

Pretty ironic that so-called "conservatives" now support government agents stealing money from others to pay for completely unrelated people who don't pay their debts.

(Not saying that you are a conservative, fwiw.)

[boozo]

Don't forget Collin county!

Oh they'll spend money on mega-churches but care for the poor?

Let the poor and indigent get care in Dallas!

They must be reading a different bible.

[Lakewooder]

I guess the CoCo uber evangelicals don't read Matthew 25, which also puts conditions on getting into heaven besides accepting Jesus as the saviour:

40"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

I doubt they also read Timothy, where Paul prohibits women from wearing pearls, gold and costly array!