Illegal Aliens force another hospital to close

Northridge Hospital Medical Center will be closing by December 31. This follows a recent announcement of the closure of the emergency room at Elastar Community Hospital in East Los Angeles.

Four other emergency rooms have closed in the county in the last two years. The reason given is the high cost of treating uninsured people. The article also states that 70 hospital emergency rooms and trauma centers have closed in California since 1990.

"We're mandated to treat anyone who comes in through those doors, regardless of their ability to pay," Tracey Veal, a spokeswoman for the Northridge hospital, said.
Ms. Veal estimated that the hospital had spent $13 million on so-called charity care in the fiscal year that ended on June 30.

While the New York Times does not exactly specify illegal aliens as the cause, it is quite obvious by these numbers.

"This is definitely cause for alarm," Carol Meyer, director of the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency, said on Friday in an interview.

Ms. Meyer said 30 percent of the nine million people in the county were underinsured or had no medical insurance at all. Statewide, seven million people are uninsured, according to the California Medical Association.

So, lets break these numbers down. 30% of 9 million is about 3.3 million people or nearly half of the 7 million in California that are uninsured, That's just in their county.

While everyones health insurance goes up to cover the uninsured, we get poorer and poorer service. If you pay your insurance on time for coverage for you or your family and there is an emergency you may just end up having to drive an extra 10-15 miles to get to an emergency room. Upon arriving you may be in line behind someone who doesn't pay, but expects the same services you receive.

Something has to be done of course. Illegal aliens receiving this free service should be number one on the list. Preventing illegals from being here in the first place is a law after all. Hospitals should be able to note whether someone is here illegally. The only way to tackle the issues is with full disclosure and good input data. If you don't know the breakdown of why someone is uninsured how can you fix the problem?

The county estimates the cost of providing them with health care is $340 million annually.

Here's a first hand account of the free ride illegals are receiving from Right Side of the Rainbow

The impending collapse of emergency health care

Earlier this year, I had a patient -- an illegal alien from Mexico -- who came to my institution after his discharge from an acute care hospital for treatment of a traumatic injury. Before that, he'd been in the custody of the Texas prison system, following his conviction for a violent offense.

I and my fellow Texans picked up the tab for his incarceration. But the cost of his acute care and subsequent rehabilitation was left uncompensated. I don't know the tally of his bill at the other institution; but at my facility, the average cost of care is $1800 a day. He was with us for 27 days.

Source - http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/000060.html

The Scam of Voting by Illegal Aliens and Felons

As the country appears so closely divided between the red and blue states, the Democrats are seeking odd-ball constituencies to enhance their numbers. They and their liberal-advocacy law firms and lobbyists have been working for months to get convicted felons credentialed to vote for John Kerry, and now they are going after the votes of noncitizens.

Many millions of noncitizens live in the United States, some legal and some illegal, and the Democrats see this as a win-win effort to get them to the polls on election day. They figure the percentages are pretty good that those constituencies will vote Democratic.

Local decisions to allow noncitizens to vote in city, county and school board elections should not give them a pass to vote in federal elections, but once they are on the precinct registration rolls, who is going to stop them? Certainly not the Democratic polling officials.

Five Washington, DC City Council members (fortunately, not a majority) just announced their support for a bill that would allow thousands of noncitizens to vote in local and school board elections. They are waving signs and slogans such as "Democracy for all" and "No taxation without representation."

The District may have as many as 40,000 resident noncitizens. That's clearly enough to provide the margin in a close election.

Americans don't have to stand by and tolerate this impertinence since, as in so many dilemmas, the U.S. Constitution provides the remedy. Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power to pass "exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever" over the District of Columbia, and the Republican Congress would be foolish if it doesn't act immediately to nip this mischief in the bud.

The DC City Council isn't the first to think up this thoroughly bad idea. San Franciscans will vote in November on whether to allow noncitizens, including even illegal aliens, to vote in school board elections even though this is probably a violation of the California state constitution which requires U.S. citizenship to be eligible to vote.

Other efforts to reward noncitizens with the franchise have emerged in New York City, Hartford, Los Angeles, Colorado, New Jersey, and Texas. Scattered municipalities in Massachusetts, Maryland, Illinois and New York have already gone down this road.

Giving voting rights to noncitizens is a thoroughly bad idea from every point of view. It cheapens citizenship and it could give legal cover to would-be terrorists who come to this country with hate in their hearts.

Enough problems are already caused by the Motor Voter Law, under which voting registration is offered to everyone getting a driver's license. This even includes those states that grant driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Becoming a resident of a state may confer the right to get a driver's license, but it does not and should not confer citizenship. According to U.S. law, lawful residents must also speak English and swear allegiance to the United States before they can become citizens.

And they must become citizens before they can vote. We don't want any immigrants voting who haven't made the conscious and sincere decision to renounce loyalty to the country they came from and pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

The Constitution should also be our starting point in the matter of allowing convicted felons to vote. The U.S. Constitution reserves the matter of voting regulations to state legislatures and, in the 14th Amendment, Section 2, specifically authorizes the disenfranchisement of felons.

Nevertheless, the Democrats have persuaded activist judges to force the state of Florida to assist felons, as they leave prison, in getting the right to vote. The Kerry campaign has already set up a nationwide legal network to recruit litigators and election lawyers to challenge the election results in Florida and other close states.

The Democrats have been whining about people who were mistakenly listed as felons on a state database during the 2000 Florida election. But the Democrats are silent about the convicted felons who actually did vote illegally in the 2000 Florida election, as well as the people who received absentee ballots to vote in both New York and Florida.

I suggest that those who are worried about whole groups of people not being able to vote, or not having their votes counted, should look into the matter of guaranteeing that U.S. military personnel serving overseas will have their ballots counted. In the uncertainties that followed the 2000 presidential vote count in Florida, an untold number of military ballots were never counted.

Today, about 150,000 of our service men and women are in Iraq or Afghanistan, and they above all deserve to have their right to vote assured and their ballots counted.

Source - http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2004/aug04/04-08-18.html

Weapons of Mass Destruction Waltz into America

Last week, a band of outlaws brought a simulated weapon of mass destruction from the Mexican border into America as easily as a housewife would fill a K-Mart shopping cart and waltz out to her car in the parking lot.

So much for Tom Ridge and Condi Rice’s assurances that our borders are safer today than 9/11! The facts show our borders as open and vulnerable today as ever.

Not only did (www.AmericanBorderPatrol.com's) former U.S. military veteran Glenn Spencer bring a simulated WMD over the border once, he did it twice! The first time, he didn’t announce it, but the second time, he advertised like Joe Namath when he ‘guaranteed’ he would bring it across. Like Namath, Spencer honored his word.

While the WMD contained no more than foam rubber packed in a case, Spencer and his group performed the mission to demonstrate how a terrorist might bring a real WMD into the USA. "We were careful in making this video to avoid giving terrorists any aid in performing a real mission," Spencer said.

Spencer’s men carried the WMD from the Mexican border to a pick-up point on a main highway five miles north to a main highway. From there, they were picked up and walked right up to the capitol steps in Phoenix. Not once were they stopped. While at the capitol, security guards asked for their ID’s, but never inquired as to what they carried in their packs.

That brings into question the words of Ridge and Rice. Can they be trusted? The unequivocal answer is, "NO!" They’re both out to lunch, on permanent holiday, full of hot air and bravado, or as teenagers would say, "Hey dudes, you’re not in touch with reality!"

This journalist interviewed Glenn Spencer at his base of operations near Sierra Vista, Arizona. His office resembles the War Room at the Pentagon. Spencer sits before five computer monitors that give him instant information on what is happening on the border. He directs a crew of patriots who fly two ‘Border Hawk’ unmanned remote controlled airplanes that can reach across 60 miles of terrain. Each plane carries a video day and night vision camera that can spot illegal aliens below. Each plane is plotted on a video map showing its location at all times. It can pinpoint aliens’ exact locations.

When the cameras spot illegal aliens moving through the high chaparral, Spencer calls in the Border Patrol for pick-up operations. At night, the planes’ night scopes expose illegals’ bodies through infrared sensors.

But that doesn’t solve the fact that a year ago, 30 year veteran Border Patrol officer, John W. Slagle reported that 35,000 OTM (other than Mexican) border crashers hailed from such places as China, India, Brazil and Russia. A total of 7,500 of those invaders came from the Middle Eastern terror sponsoring countries.

While on the border, this journalist hiked well-worn alien entry routes, which usher over 2,200 into our country daily. I viewed the Border Hawk planes in action. I saw the unending trash piled in the washes throughout the desert. I witnessed the lay-up areas and pick-up spots where the illegals are dispersed with clockwork precision. United Parcel Service and Greyhound Bus Lines couldn’t match this operation. They pick up and they deliver, but in this case, Spencer showed how terrorists easily navigate across our Mexican border.

What did he expose? He exposed Vicente Fox as Mexico’s corrupt leader who assists in drug smuggling via his army officers on the take, people smuggling and assisted terror against the American people. What terror? Fox is complicit in allowing millions of poverty and disease stricken Mexicans breaking into our country while he maintains one of the most corrupt regimes in the Western Hemisphere. Instead of taking care of his own countrymen and solving his problems, he pawns them off on us for schooling, welfare, jobs, homes, medical care, anchor babies and colonization of our country. For his impresario work, his minions send him $15 billion annually of our money.

Spencer’s operation made empty rubbish the words of Rice and Ridge as they raise and lower the threat level while doing NOTHING about our southern border. When the next 9/11 occurs, it will originate from terrorists ‘waltzing’ into our country from Mexico. Spencer proved how easy it is, how quick it is and how unguarded it is.

The sad aspect of this operation stems from the fact that U.S. citizens must defend themselves, arm themselves and take action against a foreign enemy while our Congress and top leaders serve wine and gourmet meals inside the Beltway. They were doing the same thing previous to 9/11. Nothing has changed.

We need our troops on our borders! Not another color alert level!

Source - http://www.frostywooldridge.com/articles/art_2004aug04.html