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You, On The Other Hand, Have To Pay For Your Care
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This guy had a stroke, went to the hospital, recovered, and spent 19 months in a hospital bed because he's an uninsured illegal immigrant with nobody to claim him and nowhere to go. It cost you over $2,000 a day -- $1.4 million in total costs -- to keep him there. Oh, and this guy was on his way for kidney dialysis treatment when he had his stroke... and you were paying for his dialysis, because there's a provision in Medicaid that allows for emergency treatment to be covered whether or not the recipient's legally here. More: He has family members, including two adult sons and a daughter, who apparently want nothing to do with him and don't want to pay to take care of him. The article seems to propose that the solution would have been to make people like him eligible for Medicaid or Medicare, which would have controlled costs. But why should taxpayers pay anything at all? (New York Times)
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