Why did illegal aliens receive care at a hospital before my child?

Question

I'm not surprised that this happened; I'm giving awareness to the public. I guess I should just not have insurance and refuse to pay; I just might get better services.

Oh, and my daughter split her cheek and lower eyelid open after she was roughing around with her friend. She also fractured her nose.

Answer 1

Because doctors and nurses take that oath to help any person who needs their help regardless of insurance or status.  Of course, they have to prioritize the needs of the patients.  I know that is not what you want to hear, but they have to by policy.

Answer 2

Perhaps they had a more urgent need.  I agree that it is a sad world where a parent won't pay for a private room for a child.   Certainly the rich should have priority.  You should have slipped the maitre d' a c-note.

Answer 3

And what kind of a world would it be if our station in life determined our right to medical attention?

Answer 4

i feel sorry for your daughter having such a poorly educated and hateful mother.

lots of people, regardless of citizenship issues, don't pay for their emergency medical care.

it is routine.

you shouldn't be surprised to learn that, but I bet you are, that running a financial check is not in the ethics of any medical care professional in an emergency room setting.

Answer 5

that is aweful! no matter how badly they were hurt, your daughter should have been first priority just like a native born american citizen with insurance needs to be. i can't believe our taxes are wasted on the care of people who shouldnt be in our country in the first place.

Answer 6

depends on the seriousness of the injury

and hospitals dont label people as immergrants or not if someone is hurt they help them  

you ignorant woman

Answer 7

People in a car accident, whether here illegally or not, deserve the best care as well.  They were in worse shape obviously.  You don't get to move to the head of the line at ER because you're a citizen, you move to the head by being in worse condition.  That's what triage is for...    

Answer 8

Hospitals are not run by ability to pay, OR by race/creed/ color.  As for the nurse telling you that they were illegal immigrants.. she should get her rear fired for making that statement, if she actually made it.

It is up to hospital staff to determine severity of anyone in the ER. By your standards.. if your daughter was dying, and the next patient slipped them 100 bucks, your daughter would go to the end of the line.

WHO is hurt worse, or in more immediate risk, is EXACTLY how ERs work.. and that is how it should be.  

Answer 9

My god! How can that happen? Things are truly messed up in this country. Illegals break the law & get more support & help than actual citizens. This is inexcusable.

This isn't the United States of Earth.  We have a responsibility to our own citizens, not lawbreakers.

It goes deeper than who's hurt worse. If the gov't was doing it's job this wouldn't be an issue, yet here is another instance of a weak border policy affecting a citizen negatively. IIs come here specifically to get better treatment that they know will be free.

And where's the benefit to being a US citizen when law breakers get benefits even a legal resident won't get?

Answer 10

They were probably hurt worse than your daughter.  

By your "logic", if you were poor and your daughter had life-threatening injuries, and I walked into the ER with a splinter, the hospital staff should let your daughter bleed out simply because I have money.

I'm not a liberal.  In fact, I think these suckers are invading our country and would favor shooting them on sight as they set foot on American soil.  That said, who am I (or you, for that matter) to dictate what triage procedures a hospital uses.  

Sorry you were inconvenienced, but they staff at that hospital are duty-bound to save a life if they can, and if Pancho was dying and your daughter was not, they had to treat Pancho.

And if you ARE so well-to-do, why are you going to a county hospital?  Anyone that is actually paying the taxes that fund these places ought to know better.

Answer 11

There are federal laws against refusing anyone emergency medical treatment based on of ability to pay.

The hospital staff rightfully considered the injuries of the accident victims a priority over your daughter's illness.

This law applies to everyone, even to you and your daughter.

Answer 12

your being awfully selfish. legal or not they have just as much right to receive medical attention as your daughter does. All humans are equal, and I'm sure they were in worse condition seeing as they were in a car accident.

Answer 13

Actually it does matter who is hurt worse.   Hospitals are not political forums.   Indeed the all doctors take an oath to do no harm and to treat all all patients equally.

I am sorry that you are perturbed that you had to wait, however hospitals are in the business of saving lives, all lives regardless of immigration status.

You opinion is not valid as to who was in worse shape, as you are not a doctor.  Trauma's such as car accidents normally head to the front of the Queue because internal abdominal injuries are common and covert.

Answer 14

I think you should be mad at the hospital not the poor people in the car accident.  You don't know if they were seriously hurt.  

Answer 15

The triage nurse decides who was hurt worse and decides who goes in to see the doctor first.  Regardless whether or not they could pay.  It's the law.  It doesn't matter if you have the money to purchase a private room or not.

Answer 16

Oh this kinda cr*p burns my a$$! If the d**n gov't did it's job this wouldn't be an issue. If they're gonna let them in to work at slave wages, let THEM wait  for treatment, dammit.

Better to spend taxes on building a wall all along the border and an electrified fence, with a mined zone in between. Armed towers every so often. Post in Spanish & broadcast for 90 days that anyone coming this barricade & not reporting directly to a tower will be shot - dead. That'd stop illegal immigration AND drugs AND terrorists.

Answer 17

look, I am aware that you're a parent but you're b

Answer 18

That's a perfect example of liberals thinking. If "Illegal" immigrants were back in their home country, none of this would even have happened. They wouldn't have been in a car crash here and your daughter would have been taken care of immediately.

Answer 19

Guess humanity is contagious.