The forum had a doctor who runs a northern Indiana emergency room commenting “he did not believe tightening border security to slow illegal immigration would do much to stem the troubles faced by hospitals.” Dr. Randy Thompson, medical director of emergency medicine at St. Anthony Memorial Hospital in Michigan City, “believes problems facing the health care system go beyond immigration.”
Thompson went on to say, “We have to keep our doors open. We don't care if (patients) have money or insurance. My job as a physician is that I'm here to take care of a patient. I don't care what color they are, or if they're legal or illegal.”
His comments drew applause from some of the 70 audience members. Is health insurance for all regardless of your status in this country that crazy an idea? You are rushed to the hospital for an emergency, to deliver a child etc. and you are asked for your insurance card or legal status?
A wise person once said a societies’ greatness is judged by the way they treat their elderly, sick and imprisoned.
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