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MEDICAL REPATRIATION
Posted on April 27, 2013 by keywestlou

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There is a new term out there. Few have heard it. Many will as time goes on.

It is medical repatriation.

Formal sounding. Serious in its implications.

I spoke of medical repatriation on the Key West Lou Legal Hour yesterday. The term involves illegal persons and hospital bills.

The law in the United States is that a hospital is required to care for an injured or sick person till that person is “stabilized.” Not cured. Regardless of ability to pay. Until recently, hospitals have been caring for illegal persons till cured. The result was increased billing to those who had the ability to pay. An unfair but Christian like approach.

Medicaid does not pay the medical bills of those illegally in the United States.

Hospitals have begun to change the format for handling illegals. Now they hire a plane and ship these still sick persons back to their country of origin. The expense of the plane is on the hospital. It is cheaper for a hospital to go this route rather than absorb the balance of a cure bill and rehabilitation.

A recent case involves two Mexican illegals who were working. Their employer provided each with a $100,000 medical policy. The two men had an automobile accident resulting in serious brain injuries. The $100,000 per person was eaten up in less than one week. The hospital flew them back to Mexico on the eleventh day. While both were comatose, a state they had been in since the happening of the accident.

Bad business! Such conduct sets a precedent for a hospital to throw the sick out when the money runs out. I am talking about U.S. citizens who are sick and have no insurance or have insurance that has run out.

I fear that what happens to others today, will happen to us tomorrow.

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Petrone, Louis S. “Key West Lou” (MC1957) highlights just how barbaric life becomes when we allow the Gooferment, politicians, and bureaucrats to do “charity”.

First, a system is setup to control “immigration”. (Like the character Red says in The Shawshank Redemption (1994): “I know what *you* think it means, sonny. To me it’s just a made up word. A politician’s word, so young fellas like yourself can wear a suit and a tie, and have a job. What do you really want to know?”

Immigration isn’t controlled.

(And this little L libertarian thinks that we should welcome any individual who wants to participate in the American dream. I’d hand out green cards at the border like penny candy. The flip side is that there would be no “welfare” for anybody: immigrant, citizen, or corporation! Then we would have plenty of funds for moral, effective, and efficient private charity.)

So, “we” have created an “attractive nuisance” and then “abuse human beings” when they can no longer serve the State!

What’s positive about this?

Easy!

If you haven’t been so desensitized by the Gosnell Abortion Trial, then surely this should induce you to listen to Key West Lou’s show and then put pen to paper or finger to keyboard to express your dismay, confer, or dare I say outrage at how we treat the poor.

Good Samaritan?

Now I understand that Gooferment ”health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else is totally immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. BUT, it should NOT be cruel!

Argh!

Look how easy it would to improve.

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http://musingsofafemalecollegestudent.blogspot.com/2013/04/4-things-ive-learned-over-past-4-years.html

Tuesday, April 2, 2013
4 Things I’ve Learned Over the Past 4 Years (and other stuff)
Vacca, Nicole Marie (MC2013)

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2. Forgive. People have said or done unkind/unjust things to me, both inside and outside of college. In the end, though, holding a grudge only makes me feel bad–chances are that person has already moved on with their life, and they have completely forgotten what they’ve done. Also, I’m glad that there were certain disagreements that I’ve been able to reconcile like an adult, where the offender and I actually made peace.

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A good moral for all Jaspers.

I’d add — Especially to forgive ourselves for the things we’ve done.

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Lodato, Ray (MC1984):

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Saw an incredible documentary today, entitled “Hit and Stay.” It’s about the work of Catholic activists in opposing the Vietnam War. At a time when the Cardinals of the Church were providing cover for politicians who were executing the war, these courageous people saw the true measure of their faith in a commitment to ending the war and saving the lives of Americans and Vietnamese. Took my 2 oldest boys, too, so they could get a sense of what it means to live their faith.

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http://www.hitandstay.com/background.html

History & Background
In 1967, the Baltimore Four poured blood on a few hundred A-1 draft files and waited peacefully to be arrested. They hoped not only to spare a few lives by denying the Selective Service system recruits, but also to start a discussion about the morality of war and conscription and to inspire others to take similar action.

The following year, the Catonsville Nine, Milwaukee 14, and D.C. Nine followed up with similar actions carried out by groups of priests, nuns, and their friends. Their tactics and goals moved beyond symbolic action; in doing so they subjected themselves to serious prison sentences. They sought to put the war on trial as they were being tried for their acts of resistance.

Hundreds more soon joined in as a flood of similar actions followed throughout the early 1970s. Their tactics changed: Symbolic action gave way to concerted efforts to disrupt the Selective Service system, state by state. Activists stopped waiting around to be arrested and started trying to destroy as many induction files as possible and evade capture. Many of them took part in multiple actions. Many ended up serving lengthy prison terms.

Actions like the Catonsville Nine received massive media attention, others went uncovered by the press and unreported or even downplayed by government officials. But the government took notice and Hoover’s FBI set out to infiltrate the movement and nullify it as it did the Black Panthers, Weather Underground, and other organizations. By the mid-1970s it seemed the government had succeeded.

But these actions and activists inspired untold numbers of people around the world. And many of the so-called Catholic Left or Ultra Resistance activists have continued the struggle and are working toward a variety of causes today.

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[JR: While one can question if this was "authentic", one can't question that there was a Ghandi-like MLK-like individuals here. Interesting that there is NO anti-war movement when a D is in the White House. Well, no movement other than the Quakers, Libertarians, and some pro-lifers. But it's minuscule in comparison to what it was against the draft! Now that it's all "volunteer", it's fine! Blessed are the peacemakers? Anyone remember the "Just War" doctrine?]

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