[Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Healthcare involving illegal aliens and Fire Napolitano petition

Dear Members

Please note:

I plan to have an opinion piece out this week on

illegal aliens and healthcare

Ruthie

#1 and #2 = Healthcare

#3 - Fire Napolitano petition

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/12/man-dies-outside-emergency-room-hospital-tells-police/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fnational+%28Internal+-+US+Latest+-+Text%29

Man Dies Outside Emergency Room After Hospital Tells Police Call 911

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The death of an Oregon man just feet from an emergency room has left his family in grief, upset police and drawn a request for an investigation from a congressman, all asking why an officer was told to call 911 for a heart attack victim just outside the hospital door.

Birgilio Marin-Fuentes had driven to Portland Adventist Medical Center shortly after midnight Wednesday, unable to sleep or stop coughing, then crashed his car into a pillar and wall inside the first level of the hospital parking garage under an "emergency parking only" sign about 125 feet from the emergency room entrance.

By the time somebody noticed the 61-year-old Cuban immigrant in his car and told a police officer in the emergency room, about 20 minutes had gone by.

Officers Angela Luty and Robert Quick found Marin-Fuentes unconscious and unresponsive and began cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A third officer, Andrew Hearst, went to the ER intake desk and told them what was happening.

He was told to call 911.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/02/08/texas-hospital-allegedly-discharging-surgical-patient-immigration-status/

Texas Hospital Under Fire for Allegedly Discharging Surgical Patient Due to Immigration Status

A Texas hospital is under fire for allegedly telling a surgical patient she had to leave the hospital immediately because she was an illegal immigrant.

Maria Sanchez, 24, told the Houston Chronicle that she had been at John Sealy Hospital -- part of the University of Texas Medical system -- for six days when a doctor told her on Jan. 12 that she should go to Mexico to have surgery on her growing spinal tumor. The hospital discharged her that day, the paper reported.

Sanchez's husband, Luis Aguillon, a legal U.S. resident, told the paper his wife is now getting medical care in Houston. But the couple's case is sparking a nationwide ethics debate.

A former surgeon in the University of Texas medical system who reviewed Sanchez's medical records told the Chronicle that even though Sanchez, who'd already lost use of her right hand, would likely worsen as she waited for surgery, her discharge wasn't that unusual.

"This is a practice that takes place at other hospitals," said Dr. Bill Nealon, now at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform says that's because it's perfectly reasonable for a state to refuse to provide health care to a non-resident unless it's an immediately life-threatening situation.

"We all know there's a finite amount of money available to provide needed health care to people in this country…it doesn't appear that in this case it's a matter of life and death right this minute," Ira Mehlman, the groups media director, told FoxNews.com.

Mehlman says without that immediate danger, states have every right to consider whether taxpayers should pay for an illegal immigrant's health care or whether that person should seek care in their home country -- even if that person is married to a legal resident.

"Very often illegal aliens have relatives who are legal residents, very often citizen kids. The fact that her husband is a legal resident does not change the fact that she is an illegal alien," he said.

Arthur Caplan, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, agrees.

"The need to stabilize people who are immediately at risk of dying is clear cut -- whatever country they're from, whatever their insurance status. Beyond that, each hospital makes its own decision of what it will do and how it will distribute its charity," he told FoxNews.com.

Caplan says that decision normally hinges on the stance that "charity begins at home."

"I think that is the ethically responsible stance, you should care for people in your neighborhood, in your area, and ultimately in your nation first," he said. "… And they have to come ahead of people that are in the country illegally."

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Dear Friend of Border Control:

The person that has been tasked to protect this nation and the American people is unfit for the job.

In selecting former Arizona governor Janet Napolitano to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), President Obama chose a career politician, not a professional equipped to handle the efforts of multiple intelligence agencies; assess threats to the nation; and be able to act decisively, ignoring politics and political correctness, in order to save American lives.

If you have not already signed the Petition to FIRE DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, click here to do it right now, while the new Congress is grilling her on the terrible job she is doing.

Let's be honest, a job like Director of Homeland Security requires the best and the brightest this nation has to offer -- an intelligence officer or someone with a distinguished military career. What we don't need is a career politician who would allow political correctness or partisan politics to sway their judgment. But that's exactly who we have managing the national security of our country! And our nation is at risk!

It's not her fault. President Obama made another bad decision. As governor of Arizona, Janet Napolitano was not shy about being an outspoken advocate of open borders, massive immigration and amnesty for criminal aliens. How can a person with this set of beliefs be appointed the head of Homeland Security.

It's just crazy and it needs to end now! So please click here to let your Representative, your Senators and the President know that you want Napolitano fired immediately!

Thanks for your help on this urgent matter.

Edward I Nelson
Chairman
U.S. Border Control

P.S. When you send your petition, please click on the link that will let you email your friends asking them to send emails to Washington. Thanks!