What's your take Options

[woody]

So El Paso is close to Juarez Mexico. This year there's been a drug war that's getting out of hand. So far in 08 about {edit}800+ homicides in Juarez alone.

So here's the situation.

Thomason Hospital is the county hospital in El Paso, TX.
What is happening is people are getting shot in Juarez and are being brought to the US (El Paso) to THomason hospital.
At least 2x this year the hospital has been on lockdown with EPPD and Sherriff's guarding the perimeter of the hospital.

Here are some stats form the article below:

• Thomason has treated 28 people wounded in Mexico, spending an estimated $1 million, according to hospital administrators. Nineteen were U.S. citizens or had dual citizenship, and the rest had legal permission to enter the country.
• Mexican officials have repaid the hospital fully for only one of the Mexican officers it has treated and made partial payment for another. Thomason has gotten about $314,000 back from the patients, their employers, insurers and state and federal funding
• Thomason does not want to accept the patients but have no choice under federal law

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dw...n1.4d87163.html

What's your thought on Mexican citizens (yes some had citizenship but some did not) being transported to the US for medical care and getting treatment with US taxpayer money.

This post has been edited by woody: Aug 18 2008, 10:35 AM

[Seeker]

mexico needs to build their own hospitals and train their own doctors if they want health care, basically rise up and make a better life in mexico instead of mooching off the u.s.

of course they need incentive to do this... letting them die in the street outside the hospital might be incentive enough (but we know mexicans are lazy so it probably won't be)