So, even with all the medical aid having been sent to Haiti, we are still sending bad cases to the US for advanced care. To a system that the President will not send funds, just patients. He wants the State of Florida broken so that He can step in with billions of Federal aid and rescue them.
While people might die without the aid, I can understand the case of Florida and their reluctance to spend millions on people who are not in the system paying taxes to subsidize their care.
With the 200,000 other Haitians being given work visas, ie put on the US dole, Florida should be broke before California or Michigan if the President pushes hard enough.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100130/ap_on_re_us/us_medical_airlift_haiti
The U.S. military has halted flights carrying Haitian earthquake victims to the United States because of an apparent cost dispute, though a doctor warned that some injured patients faced imminent death if the flights don't resume.The evacuations were temporarily suspended Wednesday, said Capt. Kevin Aandahl, spokesman for U.S. Transportation Command. The flights were halted a day after Florida Gov. Charlie Crist asked the federal government to help pay for care.
However, Dr. Barth Green, a doctor involved in the relief effort in Port-au-Prince, warned that his patients needed to get to better hospitals.
"We have 100 critically ill patients who will die in the next day or two if we don't Medevac them," said Green, chairman of the University of Miami's Global Institute for Community Health and Development.
At a temporary field hospital at Haiti's international airport, set up with donations to Green's institute, two men had already died of tetanus. Doctors said 5-year-old Betina Joseph faced a similar fate within 24 hours unless evacuated to a U.S. hospital where she can be put on a respirator.
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