Out Of Options

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Out Of Options
 
Thursday, Jan 11, 2007 - 05:21 PM

Karen Schradin

WSAV News 3

  It has been a week since Reyna's last dialysis treatment and a local advocacy group says she could die at any time. "By the time this is broadcasted she might be dead. Because of this confusion, because of the bureaucratic incompetence because of using these people who contribute so much as political pawns."," says Mariella Orellana of the Latino Crisis Hotline. 

The advocacy group is asking Governor Sonny Perdue to add a waiting period to an immigration healthcare law to give people like Reyna time to find other care.   They say more than one hundred people have left Georgia in the last few weeks because of the law, and many of them will die.  Our call to the Governor Perdue's office has not been returned yet.

Mariella says, "The bodies of Georgia residents, both legal and not, are starting to pile up. Mexican hospitals are getting overwhelmed with these medical repatriations of immigrant workers from all over the United States, including from Savannah.  Add to that, employers that cannot or will not provide basic health care insurance to any worker, American or not. Reyna Vazquez and her baby were never given health insurance by their Georgia employers, and she should die because of that? No, but she is. Governor, we are asking for a moratorium on this Georgia immigration law, a temporary life-boat, of sorts. Governor. We need to buy some time and you are the only one that can sell it. We need time to figure out a well-planned repatriation strategy for these Georgia residents. Yes, Georgia residents. If you want them out of our emergency rooms the only alternative today, is for a moratorium, so that we, the medical care teams, can take a breath and do what needs to be done."

  Reyna's husband, Louis works in construction.  Reyna worked full-time too, and Mariella says they paid cash for medical care until Reyna's condition became severe.
 
To contact the Latino Crisis Hotline call 238-3409. Mariella has a private insurance company which will insure illegal immigrants and anyone without insurance.  For more information about affordable private insurance contact Ann Johnson 897-4818.  She and Mariella work with the Savannah Poverty Initiative to help any residents find affordable healthcare.

URL: http://www.wsav.com/midatlantic/sav/news.apx.-content-articles-SAV-2007-01-11-0007.html

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[Rerun]

American Medicare will go broke with just legal citizens on dialysis.  Sorry, but send the illegals home.

[Black]

Did anyone else notice that the reporter who wrote that did not say anywhere in the article that the woman being discussed came into the US illegally?  But it is obvious that is true.  Sure throws aside the notion that reporters of hard news are supposed to be unbiased.

I'm 100% with Rerun on this.  We can't take of our own, much less the rest of the world.  I don't know what GA law is causing this, but I want a federal law to match.

[AlasdairUK]

Reporters and the media will always put spin on what they are covering. You need to be aware that they will put their personal view across or the view of the paper/ news channel.

[livecam]

Well soon families like this might have an option.  All the free medical care for any condition under the sun will be available to illegals and everyone else in California if governor Arnold Schwarzenegger gets his way.  Schwarzenegger recently announced plans to insure everyone in California including illegals.  Yes those of us who are citizens will of course pay more but after all, there is a whole world out there of uninsured people who deserve to be helped.  Now they can all come to California, no questions asked and their problems will be over.  

[BigSky]

All illegals need deported.  Their medical problems are not the problem of the US.

The people of Mexico need to get rid of their corrupt government.  There is no need for a country as vast  as Mexico that has plenty of resources and hard working people to have its people living in utter poverty.