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fightback3@aol.com1 (FightBack3) wrote in message news:<20030220213800.08377.00000019@mb-fq.aol.com>...
> http://www.americanpatrol.com/ECONOMICOSTS/IATransplantNC_LTR_030220.html
> 
> Re: North Carolina illegal alien transplant patient
> Associated Press - 2/20/03
> 
> Dear Webmaster,
> 
> It is reported that Jesica [the transplant patient] is an illegal alien brought
> here by her mother in an effort to intentionally game our medical system into
> free treatment of her condition. Do you have any idea just how much three years
> of treatment, two transplant surgeries, a lifetime of anti-rejection drugs, and
> medical follow-ups will cost? The costs for previous treatment and the two
> transplant surgeries have certainly already reached one to two million dollars.
> 
> Organs suitable for transplantation are rare and very hard to come by. People
> routinely wait years for a transplant if they are lucky enough to live that
> long. 
> 
> The two sets of hearts and lungs Jesica received could have saved the lives of
> up to six Americans. Instead those people will wait, wondering, hoping, and
> praying that their call comes before it is too late.
> 
> Jesica received a second set of organs within days of the first due to an
> unfortunate error involving the reporting of the blood type of the original set
> of transplanted organs. It is now reported that her family is investigating the
> possibility of legal action against those responsible for the error. 
> 
> Jesica went to the head of the line...while Americans wait and sometimes die
> and that is outrageous. I'm a transplant patient myself and I've seen similar
> situations myself...I was once in line myself...behind an Alien who received
> two kidneys and a heart before it was my turn. This kind of scenario is played
> out regularly in the U.S. but is only reported when something goes obviously
> wrong as it did in this case.
> 
> Well it is time to get ready for work now. There are taxes to pay and there are
> aliens at the head of the line, in our hospitals ready and willing to accept
> what is ours.
> 
> Transplant Patient
> "Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence the jealousy of a free people
> ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign
> influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government." 
> --George Washington, 1796

FYI

Burt