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10/5 Mexico refuses to treat american citizen without medical insurancew http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/1070556.html \_ INVADE AND CONVERT THEM TO CHRISTIANITY! \_ America refuses to treat american citizen without medical insurance too. \_ Not true. By Federal law emergency rooms can not refuse patients. Duh. \_ Oh, it's illegal? Then I'm sure compliance is perfect and they adhere to the spirit of the law. Pah. Talk to anyone who works in an ER sometime. \_ So emergency rooms are breaking Fed law and denying patients service? I have never seen reports of this, ever. \_ You don't need facts to spew on the motd. Let him be. \_ Emergency rooms cannot refuse to treat emergencies. If it is not an emergency, they just refer you to the county hospital. -used to work in an ER |
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www.kake.com/news/headlines/1070556.html It was a trip to discover his heritage but instead turns tr agic. The 23-year-old was going to Mexico to meet his birth father for the firs t time. He had been living with his adopted parents his entire life in N ewton. Many people take for granted the quality of emergency medical care in the United States. Its a lesson about health care that 21-year-old Olivia Sanchez learned t he hard way. Olivia and her 23-year-old brother Ricardo recently travele d to Mexico to meet their biological family. A Newton family adopted the m at the ages of 6 and 8 During the trip, the brother and sister went swimming at the familys ran ch. I was watching him go up and down the rocks, says Olivia Sanchez. Then he went back up and it was the second time that he fell. He was rushed to a Mexican hospi tal with severe head injuries. The physicians would not treat him, becau se he didnt have health insurance. When you have a head injury, those first few hours are real critical and it seems like we got the information too late, says Greg Sanchez, Rica rdos father. Ricardo was eventually transferred to another hospital, where he was put on life support and then a week later died. Its a tragedy that the family says shouldve never happened. The United States federal law mandates access to emergency care regardles s of the patients ability to pay. Anybody thats thinking about going on a trip over there, Id think twic e again about it, says Greg Sanchez. A funeral will be held this Friday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Newton. Gulfstream Financial Online Poll Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards square off in a debate tonigh t How much of an impact will the remaining debates have on the presiden tial election? |