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Smalltown Florida Hospital Catches Flak for Deporting Illegal Alien With $1,000,000 Unpaid Bill

IMMIGRATION
Stuart hospital's deportation of illegal immigrant sparks legal battle
An illegal immigrant left incapacitated when he was hit by a stolen van is at the center of a legal battle after the Stuart hospital that spent $1 million on his healthcare deported him.
BY DAPHNE DURET
Palm Beach Post
STUART -- On his ride back to Indiantown from a landscaping job one afternoon almost a decade ago, Luis Alberto Jimenez's destiny collided with the front end of a stolen van.

The impact killed two passengers in the car he was in and landed the van's drunk driver, Donald Flewellen, in prison for almost 10 years on a DUI-manslaughter charge.

The crash also left Jimenez, an illegal Guatemalan immigrant, with debilitating injuries and the cognitive ability of a fourth-grader.

Flewellen is on probation now. And Jimenez has become the center of a legal battle between the hospital that flew him back to Guatemala after spending more than $1 million on his care and Jimenez's family members who say the hospital falsely imprisoned him and deported him so it would no longer have to pay to treat him.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1107995.html

By miamimike on Jun 22, 2009, 10:21 in Off Topic.

pedro (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jun 22, 2009, 10:53:

So you're damned if you do treat the guy in the first instance, and you're damned if you don't.

The only just solution against these never ending claims of entitlement would be a blitz of all illegals and kick them out of the country.

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miamimike says on Jun 22, 2009, 11:12:

Pedro--a Million Dollar donation of Charity care is pretty hard to amortize for a small town Hospital. Here in Miami, last year I checked, Jackson Memorial Hospital(our large publicly funded hosp) wrote of around $455 Million in ONE Year.

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Miguel_Clavo says on Jun 22, 2009, 12:25:

Who says American Ingenuity is lagging???....jajajja

btw, I would have deported him along time ago.....if the government would have been on the ball, he would have been gone along time ago.....

Lets hear it for the new PBH Experts on Colombia! DrPhilinamillion, KY, and Darloops!!!!!!! We Salute Your Valuable Contributions to This Forum!

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miamimike says on Jun 22, 2009, 12:50:

Our Past Prez(as well as our Honorable Sen McCain) and my Avatar Hero would have given this person Amnesty with a road to Citizenship,,,He's where he belongs now. Good Question why isn't his family going after the Driver that caused this instead of the Hospital who gave him a Million $$$ worth of free care?

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Paisa/Calena/Luver says on Jun 22, 2009, 14:40:

MM.. you hear about it everyday here, you know.. people coming here from Haiti, central america.. Get checked into hospitals.. get their medical procedures done and then skip town on their $100k bills... medical tourism.. imagine that?

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miamimike says on Jun 22, 2009, 18:13:

PCL--No Medical Swindilism is more like it!

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