{"id":172,"date":"2004-08-10T21:36:20","date_gmt":"2004-08-11T02:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=172"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:17","slug":"sorry_we_cant_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/sorry_we_cant_h\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry.  We can&#8217;t heal you until we see the passport."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well okay, my title was purposely provocative but I am not too far off the mark.  Late today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/10\/politics\/10health.html\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe federal government is offering $1 billion to hospitals that provide emergency care to undocumented immigrants. But to get the money, hospitals would have to ask patients about their immigration status, a prospect that alarms hospitals and advocates for immigrants.\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Well of course it alarms hospitals.  They know what a dumb idea this is (<i>disclaimer: I am a liberal<\/i>).  Immigrants aren&#8217;t going to seek the medical help they might need knowing that Uncle Sam will be there checking their passports.  In post 9\/11 times, when an illegal immigrant with a brown name can get held, seemingly indefinitely, under material witness statutes, why would they risk going to the hospital?  Continuing with the article:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe Department of Health and Human Services wants hospitals seeking reimbursement to ask patients these questions, among others:\n\n<br>\n-&#8220;Are you a United States citizen?&#8221;\n<br>\n\n-&#8220;Are you a lawful permanent resident, an alien with a valid current employment authorization card or other qualified alien?&#8221;\n<br>\n\n-&#8220;Are you in the United States on a nonimmigrant visa&#8221; of the type issued to students, tourists and business travelers?\n\n<br>\n-&#8220;Are you a foreign citizen who has been admitted to the United States with a 72-hour border crossing card?&#8221;\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Lawyers are already pointing to the 1964 Civil Rights Act in calling this a bad idea.  You should read the other silly details in the article for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well okay, my title was purposely provocative but I am not too far off the mark. Late today the NY Times reported: The federal government is offering $1 billion to hospitals that provide emergency care to undocumented immigrants. But to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/10\/sorry_we_cant_h\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}