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WELCOME TO AMERICA!

FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS!

President George W. Bush and the US Congress feels your pain!
You can now break into the USA and receive free medical care in our
finest hospitals.
There's no need to worry about paying because America will take care
of you and your family for absolutely no charge at all.

All you have to do is get past the border guard and President Bush will
see to it
That you can receive free medical care at any Emergency Room in
America.

George W. Bush is considering dropping the border with mexico and
making it just our
51st state.  He loves Mexicans more than he loves his fellow Americans.


So, welcome to America all illegal aliens!  The USA now has unlimited
funds to give to the entire world.  Bush and Congress have decided that
its not fair that Americans have so much, so we are going to provide
free health care for the entire world, if you can break into the USA.

One thing however, do not come to America legally because if you do,
you will have to pay for your medical care, but if you break into the
USA, President Bush and the US Republican congress will give you free
health care.

All you have to do is go to the nearest hospital emergency room for
immediate and free health care.
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SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/223556_immig10.html

U.S. pays for care of illegal aliens
Treatment money for border states
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
By ROBERT PEAR
THE NEW YORK TIMES
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said yesterday that it would
start paying hospitals and doctors for providing emergency care to
illegal immigrants.
The money, totaling $1 billion, will be available for services provided
from today through September 2008. Congress provided the money as part
of the 2003 law that expanded Medicare to cover prescription drugs, but
the new payments have nothing to do with the Medicare program.
Members of Congress from border states had sought the money. They said
treatment of illegal immigrants imposed a huge financial burden on many
hospitals, which are required to provide emergency care to patients who
need it, regardless of their immigration status or ability to pay.
Under the new program, hospitals are supposed to ask patients for
documents to substantiate payment claims. But Dr. Mark McClellan,
administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said a
hospital should not directly ask a patient "if he or she is an
undocumented alien."
Instead, he said, hospitals can try to establish a patient's status by
analyzing the answers to "indirect questions": Is the person eligible
for Medicaid? (If so, payment is generally not available under the new
program.) Has the person reported a foreign place of birth? Does the
person have a border-crossing card like those issued to Mexican
citizens? Does the person have a foreign passport, a foreign driver's
license or a foreign identification card?
The Bush administration abandoned a proposal that would have required
many hospitals to ask patients if they were U.S. citizens or legal
immigrants.
"In no circumstances are hospitals required to ask people about their
citizenship status," McClellan said yesterday.
Hospital executives and immigrant rights groups had said such questions
would deter illegal immigrants from seeking care and could lead to
serious public health problems by increasing the spread of communicable
diseases.
Cecilia Munoz, a vice president of the National Council of La Raza, a
Latino civil rights group, said the new requirements were an
improvement over the original proposal but would still discourage some
immigrants from seeking treatment.