NJ hospitals rally against funding cuts
NJ hospitals rally against funding cutsBy TOM HESTER Jr. Associated Press Writer
May 12, 2008
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine on Monday said he's "bound and determined" to right troubled state finances as New Jersey hospitals rallied outside the Statehouse against his plan to cut state hospital aid by 14 percent. ..
The cut is part of $2.7 billion in cuts sought by Corzine in his $33 billion budget proposal that aims to fix state finances plagued by chronic deficits and high debt and taxes. ..
Corzine has also proposed cutting state funding for property tax rebates, state colleges, municipalities and nursing homes. He's indicated he will find alternative to his plans to close state parks and eliminate the agriculture department. ..
Much of the hospital cut would come from money given by the state to help treat New Jersey's 1.5 million uninsured residents. Since 1992, 22 hospitals have closed in New Jersey, including six in the last 18 months. Of the 76 remaining hospitals, half reported losing money.
COMMENT
When hospitals close, it is time for the public to open their eyes to reality and do something about it. When 22 hospitals close in New Jersey in 16 years, it just has to have put a lot of legal residents in jeopardy for their lives. One county in New Jersey lost one hospital, Union Hospital, and is in the process of losing a second, Muhlenberg Hospital, in the immediate future. It is going to take a lot more time for the residents in those areas to reach another hospital in an emergency. Many patients and patient visitors will no longer be able to walk, take an easy bus ride, or cheap taxi ride to their local Union or Muhlenberg Hospitals because substitute hospitals are now much further away.
New Jersey has 1.5 million uninsured residents and I would bet the majority of them are illegal residents. The next larger group are employers that do not provide health insurance to their employees.
Healthcare in New Jersey when it is not an emergency, is on a first come first served basis. Many clinics for the uninsured are turning away legal citizens because illegal aliens got their first.
It is unfair that the healthcare costs of illegal aliens be born by rank and file legal New Jersey citizens, since Washington has effectively mandated that the illegal aliens will stay. I am sure other states are suffering from paying the big bill they can no longer afford. Cheap labor is gained by business while they escape from paying health insurance to their illegal employees, but rank and file legal citizens are forced to pay for it and also compete for the limitted services.
There is an additional school funding problem in New Jersey and other states, where the same things are happening. Rank and file legal Americans are stuck paying for educating the children of illegal aliens and must compete for limitted resources unfairly.
While we would prefer to be kind and humane, the public funding for illegal aliens is breaking the backs of legal citizens. America must give preference to legal citizens. America must deport the illegal aliens. America must prosecute the employers of the illegal aliens, especially those that do not help fund their employee healthcare or the education of their children; these people not only exploit illegals but legal citizens.
Corzine, Obama, Clinton, Bush, Kennedy, and all other bleeding hearts, donate your millions to charity care and education if you want to keep your illegal aliens in New Jerseyand other states; the rank and file citizens have had it with paying for them.
And by the way, illegal aliens are criminals and their employers are criminals.
How can we try to fund everyone, while we take away funding from legal citizens?
posted by God Bless America - Bob @ 11:40 AM
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