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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting PP. [b]Hospitals are deporting immigrants who are incapacitated and cannot pay their bills[/b]. Private jet and all, from the hospital returned to their home country where they have to hope they will receive some sort of lifetime care from their families.[/quote]

Is this really true? [/quote]

Yes. Let me find some links. BRB.[/quote]

Medical repatriation:

Over the last five years, American hospitals have sent at least 600 immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally back to their home countries to avoid paying for long-term care after serious illness or injury

Quelino Ojeda Jimenez was working atop a building at Chicago's Midway Airport in 2010 when he fell, suffering injuries that left him nearly quadriplegic and reliant on a ventilator.

Advocate Christ Medical Center cared for Jimenez for four months, absorbing more than $650,000 in costs, according to a 2011 Chicago Tribune story.

Three days before Christmas that year, the hospital put him aboard a medical flight and sent him to Mexico, even though his family protested. Crying and unable to speak, Jimenez could do nothing to prevent his removal.

The receiving hospital in Mexico lacked rehabilitation services and could not afford new filters for his ventilator. After suffering two heart attacks and a septic infection, Jimenez died on Jan. 2, 2012.

http://news.yahoo.com/look-immigrant-patients-deported-hospitals-071427622.html

Hospitals trying to curb costs have chartered flights to send sick, uninsured, undocumented immigrants back to their home countries. It's a process called medical repatriation, and critics say it amounts to unregulated deportation. (April 23)

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2013/04/23/2105577/

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Some hospitals also apparently literally dump mentally ill and/or homeless people back out onto the streets ASAP after they come into the ER. No mental or social services provided.[/quote]

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