http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/01/22/tenncare-paying-for-immigrant-births/ US Troop Support and Conservative Banter Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:15:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/01/22/tenncare-paying-for-immigrant-births/comment-page-1/#comment-49950 What Would You Have Them Do? | Womenhealth Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:11:27 +0000 http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/01/22/tenncare-paying-for-immigrant-births/#comment-49950 [...] Sometimes, when people complain about something, you have to stop and ask, “Well, what is the alternative?” Bear Creek Ledger points out a story from WATE (Knoxville tv news) addressing the fact that emergency rooms are required to treat women in labor and “The law also requires TennCare to reimburse hospitals for the emergency care they provide to people here illegally who would qualify for Medicaid as a U.S. citizen.” Dr. Heather Moss, OB/GYN is “is even more frustrated because some of her tax money is paying for illegal immigrants to give birth and she is delivering their babies.” The news station “found TennCare pays for approximately 60 immigrants a month. Most of those are for mothers in labor. That adds up to a cost of about $1.7 million, an average of nearly $15 million a year.” Says Moss “I’m frustrated that someone can come here illegally and basically benefit from our welfare system. A system that was set up to help the poor citizens of the state of Tennessee,” and she “plans to contact legislators in Washington, asking them to change the law.” [...] [...] Sometimes, when people complain about something, you have to stop and ask, “Well, what is the alternative?” Bear Creek Ledger points out a story from WATE (Knoxville tv news) addressing the fact that emergency rooms are required to treat women in labor and “The law also requires TennCare to reimburse hospitals for the emergency care they provide to people here illegally who would qualify for Medicaid as a U.S. citizen.” Dr. Heather Moss, OB/GYN is “is even more frustrated because some of her tax money is paying for illegal immigrants to give birth and she is delivering their babies.” The news station “found TennCare pays for approximately 60 immigrants a month. Most of those are for mothers in labor. That adds up to a cost of about $1.7 million, an average of nearly $15 million a year.” Says Moss “I’m frustrated that someone can come here illegally and basically benefit from our welfare system. A system that was set up to help the poor citizens of the state of Tennessee,” and she “plans to contact legislators in Washington, asking them to change the law.” [...]

]]> http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/01/22/tenncare-paying-for-immigrant-births/comment-page-1/#comment-11468 What Would You Have Them Do? « Women’s Health News Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:44:28 +0000 http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/01/22/tenncare-paying-for-immigrant-births/#comment-11468 [...] Posted by Rachel on January 22nd, 2007 Sometimes, when people complain about something, you have to stop and ask, “Well, what is the alternative?” Bear Creek Ledger points out a story from WATE (Knoxville tv news) addressing the fact that emergency rooms are required to treat women in labor and “The law also requires TennCare to reimburse hospitals for the emergency care they provide to people here illegally who would qualify for Medicaid as a U.S. citizen.” Dr. Heather Moss, OB/GYN is “is even more frustrated because some of her tax money is paying for illegal immigrants to give birth and she is delivering their babies.” The news station “found TennCare pays for approximately 60 immigrants a month. Most of those are for mothers in labor. That adds up to a cost of about $1.7 million, an average of nearly $15 million a year.” Says Moss “I’m frustrated that someone can come here illegally and basically benefit from our welfare system. A system that was set up to help the poor citizens of the state of Tennessee,” and she “plans to contact legislators in Washington, asking them to change the law.” [...] [...] Posted by Rachel on January 22nd, 2007 Sometimes, when people complain about something, you have to stop and ask, “Well, what is the alternative?” Bear Creek Ledger points out a story from WATE (Knoxville tv news) addressing the fact that emergency rooms are required to treat women in labor and “The law also requires TennCare to reimburse hospitals for the emergency care they provide to people here illegally who would qualify for Medicaid as a U.S. citizen.” Dr. Heather Moss, OB/GYN is “is even more frustrated because some of her tax money is paying for illegal immigrants to give birth and she is delivering their babies.” The news station “found TennCare pays for approximately 60 immigrants a month. Most of those are for mothers in labor. That adds up to a cost of about $1.7 million, an average of nearly $15 million a year.” Says Moss “I’m frustrated that someone can come here illegally and basically benefit from our welfare system. A system that was set up to help the poor citizens of the state of Tennessee,” and she “plans to contact legislators in Washington, asking them to change the law.” [...]

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