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Is this bullshit or what?

Trace wrote:

>WELCOME TO AMERICA!
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>FREE MEDICAL CARE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS!
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>All you have to do is go to the nearest hospital emergency room for
>immediate and free health care.
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>For the complete article, see the link below:
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/printer2/index.asp?ploc=b&refer=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/223556_immig10.html?source=rss
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>SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
>http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/223556_immig10.html
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>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.
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