Should hospitals have the right to refuse ppl based on their legal status?

jim_2170

Speaking as a medical profesional I would and have treated all sick and injured people without exception. However...I was in the military and we do not ask for payment. Medicine is a duty man MUST perform for ALL without question or compensation before we will be truly the civilization we would like to be.

yars232c

For non-emergency HELL YEA

You sure you want me to answer #2?

OK - here's this, if I was in Mexico/Latin America illegally and what would they tell me to do...?

Steelers1

Absolutely! Not American, no treatment, period! Get out!

bildymooner

I dont think anyone said that !!!! I would not turn them away but when they are better they should be deported. We have them while they are there.

Lil's Mommy

They take a code of ethics dear, they have to treat people who need it no matter there status, race, religion. Shows what you know...

No, if they need help, they should receive help without having to go thru all the paper work. They are humans also, and losing a life due to having turned them away because of their legal status would make a bad impression on that hospital i think.

Soso

they don't have the rights to leave sick or injured people to suffer, hospitals are for healing and helping people not to say who is doing something illegal or not.

james w

They should be treated, sent to immigration and shipped back from where they cams from

Hospitals should put the lives of citizens before illegals- citizens should get chosen in waiting rooms, admitting rooms, etc. first. Where should these "sick and injured people" go? If it's a non-emergency case or a case where you have prior notice (ie. normal pregnancy, non-emergency surgery, etc.), back to Mexico. If it's not, to the nearest emergency room. HOWEVER, there must be two rules:
a. Any emergency patients that are citizens and that arrive first, at the same time, or nearly at the same time get chosen first.
b. The illegals should have to pay an extra fee in addition to their hospital expenses.
-Remember: Illegals are not citizens, and therefore do NOT have the same legal rights as citizens. They also are not entitled to citizen benefits- they should be happy that the hospitals will even take them.

kimba

Absolutely. Hospitals need money to keep their doors open just like every other business. They cant stay open if overrun by illegals with no money.

~*Â¤DaL!aÂ¤*~

For life threatning injuries, no! They shouldn't be turned away. For other things maybe, but for something dumb then they should.

gbkarr87

I feel that hospitals should provide unconditional immediate stabilizing care for the sick and injured. Further than that, I feel that they should be aided in seeking legal assistance

Natalie M

for non-emergency situations, yeah. if ppl aren't legal citizens they shouldn't have the right to get medical care unless they can 1. pay, 2. get insurance as legal citizens.

there are hospitals in dallas (parkland specifically) who have given millions of dollars in care to people who are either illegal or lying about their income to get free care. it's disgusting. if you can pay, PAY. if you're not a citizen, become one (and learn the language) ....

Lisa

Only if they want to be sued if the person dies or has complications from not receiving treatment.

Free clinics always take people with little or no question.

Black Sabbath

Yes, they are bankrupting hospitals.

Daisy

No, of course no one should be refused emergency treatment, regardless of their legal status. But, if not emergency, then they should have the right to refuse treatment if the person is not going to pay for it.

However, I have issue with reading in the news that even Mexicans IN Mexico, just over the border, often call the ambulance service in the USA, rather than calling their OWN ambulance service and the US ambulance service goes to them! I think the US ambulance service should be able to re-route their calls to the Mexican service in these cases.

Sashie

What yars said ....

DAR

Hospitals turn a lot of people away for inability to pay. Somehow that doesn't apply to illegals.

I think health care needs to be given in an emergency. But I think if a person is illegally here, they should be deported when their health stabilizes.

I suspect we will disagree on this one, but I am assuming border security and screened amnesty first. We have to enforce our laws. Thinking it was 'too intrusive' to ask legal status and deport people when they came for services is what got us into this mess.

gokart121

I suggest that the country of Mexico get off its' butt and build about 50 hospitals...maybe if we helped them do that it would ease the burden on the US healthcare system?

sway_ii

Yes, they arent going to pay.

IndyMM

no, they should see you any way, but you still need to pay them

Blah Blah Blah

Not a chance. It is a duty of any society to take care of the sick, injured, elderly, children, and otherwise needy people, regardless of wheter or not they are citizens. It is not about citizenship, it is about humanity.

sqwirl_hater

HELL YES! Every other business has the right to refuse service! Why not a hospital, since hospitals are eating the cost of unpaid bills from illegals! Frigin illegals are costing the taxpayers billions of dollars a year in unpaid bills. Their women come over here knocked up, just to have their friggin kids, and stick us with the bill! If they stayed in their own damn country, they wouldn't be costing US. Let em die in the damn desert or wherever, i really don't give a damn!

Belindita

Hospitals should not refuse to see anybody, regardless of legal status. If it is an emergency, they should not charge if the person is not able to pay. If it is not an emergency, they should charge them, just like anybody else. And maybe report them to immigration.

Doug W

No. And in fact Doctors take an oath not to do so. According to their creed they are bound to help anyone/everyone whether they can pay or not.

A doctors oath is just more words nowadays.

Michelle

Never. Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath right after med school and they treat anyone that walks through those doors regarless of anything. All mighty $ does not come before human lives. That is the first thing they learn in med. school.

machiko_146

If it is not an emergency, yes, they can and they should. I have a friend in medical billing and she tells me that often the web of lies that is weaved so these people can get care is so extensive often the hospital has to eat the bill. They use false addresses, names, ID's, phone numbers, everything. They become impossible to track and never have to pay up.

screwedbytheleft

Back to their damn country or pay up front.

MEL T

Only for non-emergencies. I don't think anyone with a serious life threatening illness, injury or condition should be turned away. Still, I think that illegals in the country should have to give something back to the hospital for that. Perhaps they could exchange community service hours or bilingual translation time, since they don't usually (USUALLY) pay the taxes that afford them these services.

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