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Dallas hospital plans to bill Mexico
By Hugh Aynesworth
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
July 9, 2006

DALLAS -- Parkland Memorial Hospital plans to bill Mexico and other countries to help cover the costs of health care for indigents.

The plan, which also seeks payments from adjoining counties in Texas, has brought a negative response from the Mexican government, with a diplomat terming it "an act of discrimination."

Last year, hospital officials said, Dallas County spent $76.5 million to treat people from outside Dallas. Of that, almost $27 million was not reimbursed.

Much of the cost was for treating patients from adjoining counties in Texas, which Dallas County officials claim is unfair to local taxpayers.

Collin County, just north of here and one of the state's richest counties, owed the most of any single entity, Parkland officials said -- about $7.6 million.

County Judge Margaret Keliher said she was not hopeful that other counties -- or countries -- would pay up.

But, she said, the county commission thought the matter should be made public and bills sent.

"If you're not Dallas County residents, we think where you are from should pay for your indigent health care," Judge Keliher said.

Hugo Juarez, a consul official at the Mexican Consulate in Dallas, was visibly perturbed.

He called the statements made by the judge "." He said there had been no agreement or contract between his nation and Dallas County that would make such action legal.

Lobbyists and county officials last year tried unsuccessfully to get the Texas Legislature to come up with a law that forced counties to reimburse those hospitals that took in large numbers of indigents.

"What's wrong with sending them a bill?" commission member Maurine Dickey said. She said officials "hoped" the counties that sent their citizens to Parkland would pay something. "We owe it to taxpayers to at least try."

Mr. Juarez also was curious about how hospital officials would know where to send the bill.

"How do they know who is Mexican?" he said. "Nobody asks for your nationality nor immigration status when you go to the hospital."

Currently, Parkland is reimbursed by the federal government for treatment of illegal aliens, but Parkland officials said that agreement covers only 48 hours of emergency care and falls far short of what expenses the hospital often incurs.

The hospital has spent more than a week figuring out how many foreign nationals have been treated and how much to bill each of the nations.

An estimated 90 percent of those affected are Mexican nationals, one source told The Washington Times.

John Gates, Parkland's chief financial officer, said he was in favor of sending the bills, though he doubted anybody would pay.

What's interesting to note here is the wholly Jew-programmed manner in which the quoted Mexican "consul official" Juarez reacts in response to the hospital's very straightforwardly-stated desires for compensation.

Firstly, he cries "discrimination" in a thinly-veiled attempt to attribute racist motives to the county official who wants to collect from Mexico on these indigents who received health care. It looks as if the Mexicans have very thoroughly internalized Jew Rule #1 when engaging in resource competition with whites, with that rule being the need to make an accusation of racism as quickly as possible upon the arousal of a dispute.

Secondly, Juarez feigns an inability to understand or comprehend the simple logic that the burden of payment should rest upon the shoulders of those who seek out a good or a service, as indicated by his statement of "a strange posture, a strange reasoning" in response to the Dallas county judge's very simple statement of her belief that the countries from which individuals hail should bear the burden of accepting responsibility for the actions of its citizens (or "shitizens" as the case may be with Mexico). This is wormy cognitive dissonance of the mestizo mind at its finest, folks.

It’s heartening to see this Dallas hospital make a stand against parasitic invaders, but the outlook is grim for the recovery of any actual money from Mexico. Nonetheless, it’s a promising symbolic act on the hospital’s part.