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Coke, opinion article in Las Vegas Review Journal this week about 80 "known" illegals getting weekly emergency kidney dialysis to the tune of $2M a month. So the good people of Clark County are picking up the tab for these 80 people almost $25M a year. Pretty fucked up...... pretty pissed about it especially since I still own property there.



There is no such thing as "weekly emergency kidney dialysis".

No, don't bother to post a link to some article written by a functionally retarded local small town reporter who doesn't know what they are talking about, I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that is what was printed in their newspaper, it is still wrong.





What the article meant was; undocumented aliens with no health insurance who's kidney's are failing need weekly dialysis. The only way to get said dialysis is to show up at the emergency room where they will receive said dialysis since the hospital will not turn them away no matter their ability to pay. I saw the same thing in San Diego where a friend of mine was an emergency room doc at Coronado Hospital. Like clockwork almost nightly illegal alien about to deliver a newborn shows up in the emergency room where the hospital delivers the child for free and costs are eaten by the local government. This is all wrong, how to fix it is difficult, but it is still wrong.



I know what they meant but you don't get dialysis by walking into an emergency room. Hemodialysis is not performed weekly. Emergency hemodialysis is a specific term with a specific meaning and used for very specific conditions (also not used on a weekly basis).

Most likely the article was pure fabricated bullshit. Either that or the writer was monumentally stupid and understood absolutely nothing about the topic they were writing about. If they couldn't make the point without all the exaggerated hyperbole, maybe they didn't feel very confident in their point?

When people ask me to ignore all those pesky little incorrect facts and details that they got wrong and just go along with the "Big Picture", I have to call bullshit and walk away. Are you REALLY willing to excuse the fact that they were wrong about all those pesky little details just because you want to agree with the point they were trying to make?

If you don't believe me, call your friend in San Diego and ask him how many people (illegal alien or American citizen, with or without health insurance) he has ever dialyzed in the ER.




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