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Title: Mexico demands cash up front for emergency medical treatment of American!
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ALIPAC
URL Source: http://www.alipac.us/article286.html
Published: Jul 10, 2005
Author: The Penn Online
Post Date: 2005-07-10 17:58:22 by Zipporah
Keywords: emergency, treatment, American!
Views: 130
Comments: 8
Paul Guzan (junior, criminology) waded in the clear, shallow water near the shores of Cancun, Mexico, one day during last week's spring break. Friends, drinks and sun ruled the afternoon -- until he felt a sharp clamp on his foot. "The water was about up to my knees," he said Monday. "I was swimming, just fooling around, and I felt something pull my foot away. It felt like a steel trap. "It was pretty shocking," he said. "As soon as it grabbed me, I started walking. When I got out of the water, I noticed that my tendons and toes were kind of hanging. And blood was squirting everywhere." Guzan had been attacked by a barracuda, the torpedo-like tropical fish nicknamed "the tiger of the sea" for its predatory prowess. His foot was shredded, as the fish had ripped the skin away and torn through tendons, nerves and ligaments. And his problems didn't end there. Guzan said he was taken to a local Mexican hospital, where he was forced to wait hours for care: "They told me my insurance company was 'red-flagged' ... that I would have to pay between $10,000 and $20,000 cash before they would even treat me." The hospital claimed that HealthAmerica, Guzan's provider, was blacklisted for not paying on an unrelated case, though HealthAmerica later told Pittsburgh's Channel 4 that the hospital was confusing it with another carrier. "Luckily," Guzan said, "I had my parents' platinum credit card with a high limit. The owner of the hospital came down and told me my surgery would be expensive. He said, 'It will be at least $10,000 to start. If you can't do that, if you don't have that, feel free to leave and find another hospital.'" Guzan paid the $10,000 and waited eight hours, foot wrapped and bleeding, to be admitted to surgery. The surgery, he said, took place Wednesday and also lasted eight hours. After the surgery was complete, the hospital told him that he wouldn't be released until he paid an additional $5,000. This is where the American embassy stepped in, according to a report from Pittsburgh's Channel 4. Guzan's family began calling around to contact authorities, and the embassy intervened on their behalf. "They faxed something over to the hospital showing them that, because we paid the deposit, they can't physically keep us from leaving," Cheryl Guzan, the student's mother, said. Consequently, Guzan was released from the hospital Friday and returned to the states that evening. He was quickly taken to a hospital near his home in McMurray, Pa., where plastic surgeons and physicians approved of the work done by the Mexican doctors. "They said that everything looked good," Guzan said. Guzan is currently receiving antibiotics to prevent infection, but needed no further surgery upon his return to the country. He is confined to his home for at least two weeks, he said, but plans to return to his IUP classes before the end of the semester. He comes away from the experience with a few things, including blow-by-blow photos taken by his Mexican surgeons of his foot before, during and after his surgery -- inside and out. And he has a spring break story to tell, sure to rival anyone else's. "I was thinking about getting a tattoo," he said. "Barracuda's teeth marks. Right above my foot."
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
It just goes to show, Mexicans aren't stupid. Lazy and cantankerous, maybe, but not stupid. I really don't expect reciprocity for our deeds as Americans (ie. free medical care to illegals) because ours is a policy of national suicide. We are tripping over ourself to give away the farm and no one should expect others to partake of the same madness.
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Good old Suxico.
I really don't expect reciprocity for our deeds as Americans (ie. free medical care to illegals) because ours is a policy of national suicide. We are tripping over ourself to give away the farm and no one should expect others to partake of the same madness. Well..Vicente Fox is not stupid for sure..
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
Hey this works for them for sure.. they close Mexicos southern border.. they send their poorest and neediest.. for us to give healthcare and to educate..and get them to send all the money to Mexico that they make in the US.. so its a win win for them for sure..
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
No wampum, no hampum
Every American Hospital should now turn away EVERY SINGLE NON-DOCUMENTED, NON-INSURED ILLEGAL ALIEN IN PROTEST. They might even save their own asses from bankruptcy. We seriously need to cut these people off from all the shit they get for free in this country. Do that, and you'll see all kinds of humanitarians coming out of the woodwork.
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
#3. To: Dude Lebowski (#1)
It just goes to show, Mexicans aren't stupid. Lazy and cantankerous, maybe, but not stupid.
#4. To: supertracpak (#2)
#5. To: Zipporah (#0)
Yez, Baaz!
#6. To: Zipporah (#0)
 | So many morons, so few bullets. |
#7. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#6)
We seriously need to cut these people off from all the shit they get for free in this country. Do that, and you'll see all kinds of humanitarians coming out of the woodwork. Youre right. I read some stats on the number of hospitals that have gone bankrupt due to treating illegals .. I'll try to locate it .. Oh you are SO right about the so called humanitarians.. they'd be yelling racists and every other guilt laden group of words they could muster up.
They might even save their own asses from bankruptcy.
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#6)
They might even save their own asses from bankruptcy. Fantastic idea. Except it's illegal. Those subhuman vermin shitheels in Congress have made it against the law to deny anyone who needs (or I suppose claims to need) immediate medical attention. We as a country deserve everything we get for repeating our mistakes time after time. Mencken was right about Democracy.
Every American Hospital should now turn away EVERY SINGLE NON-DOCUMENTED, NON-INSURED ILLEGAL ALIEN IN PROTEST.
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