Ithink Zee is correct on this:
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"Likely" the local hospitals were established without a plan about how to provide free services to illegal immigrants who have money to send home to mexico, but no money to pay for the services provided.
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This amount of money could indeed pay for the medical bills charged off by hospitals as uncollected from undocumented workers. Here is the evidence. If undocumented workers paid their hospital bill, we likely wouldn't have hospitals charging off billions annually thus forcing sqeezes upon their finances. It seems that undocumented workers are not only in the country illegally, but many are deadbeats as well.
The Columbus Dispatch - Local/State Quote:
Money flowing into Mexico from workers in the United States could reach $17 billion when the numbers for 2004 are tallied, up from $13.3 billion in 2003, the Bank of Mexico reports.
Last year, money sent from the United States overtook tourism as the second-largest revenue producer, behind oil.
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Here is the amount of unpaid hospital bills.
Unpaid bills squeeze U.S. hospitals' resources | Chicago Tribune Quote:
| The association has not tallied the full extent of undocumented immigrants' impact on uncompensated-care costs, but representatives say they are certain it reaches into the billions of dollars annually, citing several regional studies completed in recent years. The association often quotes a 2002 study that put the annual cost of emergency hospital services and transportation costs at more than $200 million for hospitals along the border with Mexico
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