One of the things I have been harping about is the influx of disease that the illegals are bringing into this country. I caught this at Michelle’s and about dropped my jaw! She linked this WSJ story TB or Not to Be An illegal alien has a brush with death–and gets up to work again. The author rambles in the piece, but she does make it clear that he ended up at her hospital in Greenwich, CT, because the other hospital was forced to close “because the one in the town where he’d settled, the neighboring and much less well-to-do Port Chester, had shut down after going bankrupt. That hospital had cared for a large number of patients just like him: no insurance, no English, no papers.” Her patient racked up a $200,000 bill but is fine! Here she sings his praises:
I thought I’d never see this young man again, but I was wrong. Six months after surgery, he walked into my office. Walked in. No wheelchair, no walker, no cane, not even a limp. Not only that, he told me (through a translator) that he was looking for a new job. I thought about all the American workers I’d operated on, for far less serious problems, who were quick to bring in disability paperwork after surgery, hoping I’d deem them permanently disabled, unfit for any line of work. And at that moment, the resentment I’d felt six months earlier was replaced by something quite different–admiration.
And what is happening with his family?
How many other diseases are being brought in by how many other undocumented and unexamined workers? Somehow, here, a social worker was able to track down the friends and relatives who came to the U.S. with this patient. They all tested positive for TB, and were all working behind the scenes in local restaurants.
Admiration?
Last week I posted a link to a piece regarding the untold assaults on the nation’s medical system due to illegal aliens. Google “Dr. Madeleine Pelner Cosman” for more.
They can sue tobacco companies for health costs, not even directly related to smoking. Why can’t people that contract these diseases sue the advocates of illegal immigration? That should be enabled.
Another fine reason to seal our border which the Congress seems less and less willing to do. Maybe the proper way to solve the problem is to track down as many TB infected aliens as possible and march them into the Capital Building for a luncheon with the Congressmen. Or perhaps we could hold a nice buffet in the park across the street with all of the servers TB infected aliens. If we throw in an open bar for a few hours we know at least Ted Kennedy will show up. Send all of them a letter a week later explaining how they had now had the pleasure of being exposed to TB infected illegals like the rest of us. Maybe after they all have to go through the necessary tests, and a few of them innoculations they’ll get the damn point.
As for the illegal alien in the story, of course he didn’t come in looking for disability, he wasn’t entitled to any. Besides he’d already received over 20 years with of payments in the form of $200,000 + worth of free medical care. My buddy who lost a leg to an infection had to give up his $50k a year job as a surveying crew chief and every so often has to go in to prove he’s too disabled to do his former job just so he can get an $800 a month SSDI check. He worked as a volunteer stage carpenter for a children’s theatre until they hired him full time at less than half what he’d been making as a surveyor. He once took off his prosthetic and handed it to the disability judge and said “Well Your Honor, Do I look like I’m still disabled to you?” He was at the top of a ladder adjusting some stage lights and the snaps on his prosthetic popped loose and he had to hop down the ladder on one leg.