Trtle2001 on August 28, 2007 at 3:35 PM

Amen brother. And to the good Doctor who lost his job for speaking out, thank you. I lost my home to these illegals so there’s nothing they won’t take away from the unconnected. That’s right they can spot someone with connections in a hearthbeat they are brought up from birth like this and respect only the corrupt, don’t let them fool you with the religious stuff. A mexican/amer. on the Laura Ingraham radio show said most pray to Jesus as if he were a genie in a bottle and they are going to end up with some kind of PRIZE..and this lady was dead serious when she explained it on the radio..

I’m sick of this going on in california…truly sick of it. We are being slowly taken over without guns…but by our own stupidity and liberal pcness craze. It’s sad.

Last time I was there it was 90% people who didn’t even speak English

Same problem here. Took my mother to the local ER several months ago. The crowd was SRO and not an English speaker in the lot. Oh yeah, Williamsburg, Virginia.

The New York Times

Los Angeles Emergency Care Crisis Deepens
By NICK MADIGAN

Published: August 21, 2004

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20 – A crisis in Los Angeles County’s emergency health care system became more acute this week with the announcement that the oldest hospital in the San Fernando Valley would close by Dec. 31, officials said here Friday.

News of the closing of the institution, the Northridge Hospital Medical Center campus in the Van Nuys section, which opened in 1929, follows by a week the closing of the emergency room at Elastar Community Hospital in the East Los Angeles neighborhood.

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In the last two years, four other emergency rooms, most in low-income areas, have closed in the county, primarily because of the high cost of treating thousands of uninsured people, officials said.

“We’re mandated to treat anyone who comes in through those doors, regardless of their ability to pay,” Tracey Veal, a spokeswoman for the Northridge hospital, said.

Ms. Veal estimated that the hospital had spent $13 million on so-called charity care in the fiscal year that ended on June 30. In addition, she said, the hospital faced $16 million bill for state-ordered earthquake retrofitting and could not afford it.

Since 1990, 70 hospital emergency rooms and trauma centers have closed in California, a state whose emergency and trauma system is overwhelmed and underfinanced, health officials say.

“This is definitely cause for alarm,” Carol Meyer, director of the Los Angeles County Emergency Medical Services Agency, said on Friday in an interview. “The whole system is more and more tenuous.”

A severe shortage of nurses is adding to the distress, Ms. Meyer said, as new state regulations actually require adding nurses. The rules, starting on Jan. 1 and meant to be applied around the clock, say there must be no more than four patients per nurse in an emergency room. In intensive-care units, the ratio is two to one. In severe trauma cases, it is one to one, and in medical and surgical wards six to one.

“We are in real tough times here,” Ms. Meyer said. “I don’t know what the solution is going to be. The ultimate answer, of course, is money. It’s not going to change until somebody in a high position has a family member die because they couldn’t get treatment in an emergency room.”

Fewer and fewer doctors, she said, are willing to be on call to emergency rooms, given the high insurance premiums they must pay and, in many cases, the lack of reimbursement for treating the uninsured.

Ms. Meyer said 30 percent of the nine million people in the county were underinsured or had no medical insurance at all. Statewide, seven million people are uninsured, according to the California Medical Association.

“It used to be that physicians would build their practice by working in an emergency room,” said Ms. Meyer, who formerly instructed paramedics. “Now they do contracts with H.M.O.’s. They don’t need to be on call.”

The 500 hospitals in the state are “on the verge of a whole series of unraveling events,” said Dr. Jack Lewin, executive director of the California Medical Association, which represents the interests of the 35,000 doctors in the state.

Uncompensated health care, Dr. Lewin said, affects everyone in the system.

“No place is safe when you have large volumes of people who need care, but there’s no one to pay for it,” Dr. Lewin said. “Employers are increasingly forced to dump coverage of their employees and their dependents. The state used to bail us out, but no more.”

Jerry Conway, president of the 209-bed Northridge Hospital Medical Center, one of 42 such centers owned by Catholic Healthcare West in California, Arizona and Nevada, said the hospital has been losing $1 million a month for a year. The hospital, which delivers 250 babies a month and has 26,000 emergency-room visits a year, has worked out a plan to transfer much of its workload to Valley Presbyterian Hospital, a mile east, Mr. Conway said. Northridge Hospital’s sister center on Roscoe Boulevard, eight miles west, will stay open.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/21/national/21hospitals.html?ex=1188446400&en=71cf8ab104d84828&ei=5070

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Doctor fired over hospitals’ illegal alien care policies…

Also on Rt. 8. On a recent drive from Phoenix to San Diego a couple weeks ago, had to slam on the brakes twice on this road to avoid hitting someone running, in pitch blackness, from the south side of the highway across 3 lanes of traffic to a waiting vehicle parked on the shoulder

I THINK YOU’VE FOUND THE ANSWER! ELIMINATE BREAKS!

Maybe we should all renounce our citizenship and apply for free health care.

Kini on August 28, 2007 at 1:32 PM

Actually, That’s what I do. My family hasn’t had Health Ins in 3 years. When we go to the spanish language class Emergency room, I tell the receptionist to put us down as Illegals.

There are literally roadsigns of a man, woman and child holding hands and running, indicating “beware of people on the freeway.”

Also on Rt. 8. On a recent drive from Phoenix to San Diego a couple weeks ago, had to slam on the brakes twice on this road to avoid hitting someone running, in pitch blackness, from the south side of the highway across 3 lanes of traffic to a waiting vehicle parked on the shoulder. Reported it to the Border Patrol checkpoint a few miles up the road.

I reside in Redwood City, CA and there are a ton of illegals close to my neighborhood.

mimi1220 on August 28, 2007 at 9:58 AM

Mimi; Is Peking Chef still on the corner with Dennis Nelson’s?

To keep from hijacking the thread, you ain’t seen illegals there like we see here (AZ). When we first moved from RC in 2000, this place was still mostly farmland. Not any more, and the illegals have come out of the woodwork!

Maybe we should all renounce our citizenship and apply for free health care.

Kini on August 28, 2007 at 1:32 PM

Immigration certainly works both ways.

that will wake a person up…possibly even a liberal open boarder liming.
Going to send a copy to my congressman and senators.

Thank You

This is why more of US need to go to law school

JustTruth101 on August 28, 2007 at 12:04 PM

“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”. – (Henry VI, Act IV, Scene II).

This is the gift that we should be leaving to our children and grandchildren: a country in better shape than the way we found it. WE have to fix this…the sheeple (sheep people) who vote do not pay attention…WE have to get involved.

JustTruth101 on August 28, 2007 at 12:04 PM

I appreciate your sentiments, but this country is essentially going to be Latino in about 20 years. Just look at California.