DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants from Mexico.
The men had health insurance from jobs at one of the nation's largest pork producers. But neither had legal permission to live in the U.S., nor was it clear whether their insurance would pay for the long-term rehabilitation they needed.
So Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines took matters into its own hands: After consulting with the patients' families, it quietly loaded the two comatose men onto a private jet that flew them back to Mexico, effectively deporting them without consulting any court or federal agency.
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5 comments:
Good!
So, after reading this entire article, and having heard how great Mexico's universal health care is, and then reading that the Mexican hospital says that the two would have received better care had they been left at the Iowa hospital, it begs the question: Why are we moving away from privately run insurance into Obamacare?
I think the answer is becoming clearer by the day.
It's about time someone has the grapes to make a GOOD decision.
If they're here illegally, they aren't supposed to be employed, right? How then did they get health insurance? I can imagine the insurance company refusing to pay because the coverage was obtained fraudulently.
I hope there's an investigation into the employer's hiring practices...sounds like someone didn't practice due diligence.
I agree with 9:13, I have filled out hundreds upon hundreds of I-9s to ensure we are not hiring illegal aliens, obviously the "national" company that hired them were not. Deporting them will comatose may be a little much, they either used illegal green cards or their employer has broken the law by knowingly hiring them. We have laws that are not enforced, why not?
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