Well, Excuuuuse Me!
In a recent action that should be applauded, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas is billing Mexico (and other countries) to cover the cost of providing health care to illegals. In response, a Mexican diplomat in Dallas, Hugo Juarez, has called this, “an act of discrimination.” Additionally, he wonders how they’ll 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.”
Well, I’m not going to quibble over nickels and dimes. It’s the thought that counts, and this time it’s the right one. I can see no discrimination here. No one is refusing treatment to these people. And it is pretty clear where the majority of them are coming from. If your government is going to encourage the illegal immigration into the US and these people require medical treatment they can’t pay for, should the hospital (and the US taxpayers) foot the bill? I think not.
Since the hospital is trying to recover payment from other counties in Texas for citizens of those counties they treated, as well as billing other countries for treatment of their nationals, how is that an act of discrimination? Did they refuse treatment to Mexicans in the country illegally? No. Are they billing only Mexico and no one else? No. So where is the discrimination?
What would happen to me if I entered Mexico illegally and then required medical attention? Would they treat me and let me go without paying and without punishment? If Hugo Juarez can answer that in the affirmative, then maybe he has a point. If not, his idle words are nothing more than hypocrisy. What say you, Senor Juarez?
[Dallas hospital plans to bill Mexico]
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