From the NY Post:
More than 1 million New Yorkers lack health insurance and are relying on Big Apple hospitals and city-run health clinics to provide their medical care, according to new data.
The sheer number of the city's estimated uninsured -- 1.3 million -- exceeds the entire population of all but a handful of cities, US Census data show.
The number is double the population of San Diego, San Francisco, Dallas or Washington DC, three times larger than Atlanta, and four times more than Miami.
And estimates show that nearly 40 percent of the city's uninsured -- 500,000 -- are illegal immigrants.
17 comments:
Sanctuary City. Asked for. Given. Deal with.
The sanctuary city policy must end NOW! My heart does not bleed for the diabetes, obesity, and STDs of the uninsured illegals.
see:letter to the editor.....queenstribune.com......
"unbelievable" by Ed. Konecik,12/30/09
RE:the obama healthcare bill.
"And estimates show that nearly 40 percent of the city's uninsured -- 500,000 -- are illegal immigrants."
So it must follow that the remaining uninsured 60% majority (750,000) of uninsured, can't be sucking the hospitals dry because they are 'legal'.
Leave it to the New York Post to create such a dishonest hateful story. Anybody who repeats it by posting it on a blog should be ashamed of themselves. (By the way NY Post I just love the huge round numbers in the story, totally believable.)
Yea right anon #3 it's all the Presidents fault. What a jerk you are.
Hey, we seemed to have had no problem dealing with the number of American uninsured before we became a sanctuary city. And the thing is that American uninsured will tend not to abuse emergency rooms because they will actually get a bill in the mail and debt collectors coming after them. Not so with illegals.
St. John's and MIH closed in large part because of these leeches. Jamaica, Wyckoff and Flushing are also on the brink. Illegals DO NOT provide more services than they take. And when they start having anchor babies, watch out. The steady decline in NYC quality of life started when Rudy declared us a sanctuary city and accelerated under Bloomberg.
"And the thing is that American uninsured will tend not to abuse emergency rooms because they will actually get a bill in the mail and debt collectors coming after them. Not so with illegals."
Excellent point that people tend to forget. I have insurance, but if I didn't, I would have judgments against me if I couldn't pay that would gain in interest until paid.
The net result of 500,000 illegal alien using our hospitals is that it bankrupts the existing hospital system.
2 major hospitals in Queens have closed last year. It is the intent of Gov Patterson, Mayor Bloomberg, Joe Crowley, Helen Marshall and Marge Markey to insure their constituents nearest these former Hospitals to die en route to hospitals that are much further away.
So you just wait till the Obama health passes where you will be paying for these illegal aliens so that that they may all have legal free health care. Remember this and stand on line behind them as you lay on an gurney while they are attending to a cold or tooth ache.
"Hey, we seemed to have had no problem dealing with the number of American uninsured before we became a sanctuary city."
When weren't we a sanctuary city?
Before Koch. But Rudy kinda advertised it and Bloomturd went out of his way to blare it from the rooftops.
RE; the obama /democrat healthcare bill.
why would anyone agree to pay taxes for four years in
advance, for services not available until 2014 ?
call your U.S.reps.,let them know how you feel about this fact.
Does this include the 5 million anchor babies ?
The females remain pregnant till they die, get murdered by their men or run out of eggs.
My U.S. Rep is Gary Ackerman!
He's part of the problem!
Not to worry....Saint Obama gonna fix things up....LOL!
bloomberg wants sanctuary because his rich friends have cheap labor while we taxpayers subsidized their health care.
RE; 5 MILLION ANCHOR BABIES.
they are already insured ,until the age of 28, by the new C.H.I.P,(child health insurance plan). i believe it is a n.y.s. law.
and the liberal left wing taxpayer rip-off continues.
guess how many democrats voted for the bill?
see NYS.GOV.COM
I know someone who came here from PR to come here to work and send money home to help the family.
Of couse, she knew no english, so finding work was not gonna happen. Instead, she got pregnant twice in 3 years, and now has her family back home sending HER money just to feed the kids.
But dont worry, both births were taken care of by the state, and by state, i mean me and you.
does bloomturd care if the illegal leeches smoke or eat transfats? I bet they get a pass on that. speaking of that - that commercial with the 10 amputated fingers and foot cut off - have you ever met a smoker who had that happen? I think she has diabetes and she smoked.
get the disgusting illegals out of our country
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