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To: jttmab who wrote (6651)	3/18/2004 6:16:36 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

jtt: I don't have a clue how to get anything for free. I've always paid my way. Here's something I did find: take a hypothetical “Gloria,” a twenty-year old Los Angeles resident who is seven months pregnant? Like Diaz, Gloria is uninsured, unemployed and illegally in the U.S. Medi-Cal will cover Gloria’s prenatal care and child delivery costs. If Gloria doesn’t speak English, the hospital must, by law, provide her with a Spanish-speaking translator. Gloria’s newborn child will also get car seats and diapers under her Medi-Cal coverage. In the event of post-partum complications, California will absorb all of the costs. U.S. taxpayers have spent hundred of millions on patients like Diaz and Gloria. As a consequence, the states are facing a crisis of unparalleled magnitude. As Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30 column “Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to Swamp U.S.”, “the impending Medicaid disaster is not a problem the states can handle alone; their budget shortfalls are too big.” If you want to reduce the cost of quality health care for U.S. citizens then you cannot provide it to every illegal alien in the country. And if the government can turn its back on health care for military veterans, as it announced it would last week, then cutting off aliens shouldn’t be too tough. vdare.com They need insurance, which they can't afford and won't purchase.. It's a condition of getting a driver license. For a period of time they must have insurance. That's a period of coverage. If someone is here illegally, he has already found a way to skirt the law.