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DAP Forums > DREAM Act > The News Room

Worker can’t get surgery that could save his life

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06-08-2009, 01:51 AM
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Gustavo Rodriguez Adulfo could be dead for years before national leaders debate this question: What should the United States do with illegal immigrants who become seriously ill?

Should the country offer health insurance to cover their treatment? Should it arrest and deport them? Or should it let local doctors and hospitals decide what to do in each case and bear most of the cost?

So far, the government has chosen the third option. And Congress plans to sidestep the issue as it discusses ways to offer health coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/art...10/-1/SPORTS09
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06-08-2009, 01:58 AM
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i know i am going to sound like a total asshole. but i don't think that helping him out would make many people (citizens w/o insurance, theres a ton of them) happy. Of course everyone knows what argument they are going to make.

If i am a legal resident/citizen of this country and i do not have health insurance, why should an illegal person have it.

I think that one of the biggest problems for the US is that this is a country of laws, and there aren't too many laws that apply to everyone. Sometimes the government has to take a moral stand on such things like these.

but also, doesn't his surgery require some sort of transplant? if so then there must be other people waiting in line for that organ.

well either way i wish him the best.
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06-08-2009, 02:09 AM
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There have been people whose bodies rotted to death from cancer while crying for medical help in Immigration Detention.

I believe it was in Arizona where a child was deported instead of treated when seeking medical care for a mortal illness and ended up dying soon there after.
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