To save a life... or to not save a life...that is the question.

Hospitals all accross America are facing choices of life or death when it comes to helping Illegal Immigrants get care through emergency rooms. While it would seem heartless to reject someone in desperate need of healthcare, hospitals are beginning to close down (if not closing thier doors to the uninsured) due to insufficient funds from helping those who can't attain or afford health insurance, a large chunk of whom these are illegal immigrants.

Personally, I don't know how anyone with a beating heart could turn someone down without insurance, but a a part of me does get angry that my money will be paying for other's healthcare when I'm already having a hard time paying for myself. These people are getting a free ride- it's the same thing with car insurance. You get in an accident with an uninsured vehicle, you end up paying for your damages, and they get a ticket.

An example of what one family went through and recieved medical care was written in World Net Daily:

Cristobal Silverio emigrated illegally from Mexico to Stockton, Calif., in 1997 to work as a fruit picker. He brought with him his wife, Felipa, and three children, 19, 12 and 8- all illegals. When Felipa gave birth to her fourth child, daughter Flor, the family had what is referred to as an "anchor baby" -an American citizen by birth who provided the entire Silverio clan a ticket to remain in the U.S. permanently. But Flor was born premature, spent three months in the neonatal incubator and cost the San Joaquin Hospital more than $300,000. Meanwhile, oldest daughter Lourdes married an illegal alien gave birth to a daughter, too. Her name is Esmeralda. And Felipa had yet another child, Cristian.The two Silverio anchor babies generate $1,000 per month in public welfare funding for the family. Flor gets $600 a month for asthma. Healthy Cristian gets $400. While the Silverios earned $18,000 last year picking fruit, they picked up another $12,000 for their two "anchor babies." (World Net Daily 2005)

All the money they needed/recieved nearly makes up half a million dollars.The US spends $1.3 billion every year in illegal immigrant incarceration, education, and medical car.

Watch newscast on costs of Illegal Immigration:




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Florida and California"> are two states that have been spending hundreds of millions to keep hospitals afloat due to helping those without healthcare.