Claim proposed Medicare cuts, lack of support for unique conditions they face, could spark disaster

Congress needs to step up and provide more? You must be joking! If there's such a huge problem, visit the Texas Border Coalition now suing Homeland Security and demand they drop their suit. I saw nothing in this article that would benefit the citizens of Texas, but a request for funding to help the physicians. And as for Anchor babies? Women have given birth without any medical assistance for years. Medical treatment is but a guize for an Anchor Baby!

I agree with what is stated above. I live in the seventh poorest county in AMERICA, and there is already so much state and federal money spent here it is ridiculous. I went to the dentist two years ago and it took them over half an hour to process my personal insurance because they were so accustomed to recieving Medicare or Medicaid. My property taxes are through the roof, so that I can pay for the school system here. A school system where a large percentage of those attending, are Mexican citizens who drop their kids off for the "free" education that I am paying for. There are many here who are so accustomed to getting things, healtcare, food, housing, without earning it that they believe that it is their right. Generational welfare is alive and growing on the border, and the teen pregnancy rate is tremendous. Yet, despite this there is not a planned pregnancy in town. Huh?

From the article: " (Dr.) Villarreal says in addition to the generally poor and uninsured population of the Rio Grande Valley, border doctors treat elderly Winter Texans,** and people from Mexico who cross the Rio Grande suffering from a variety of conditions, from gunshot wounds suffered in the ongoing drug violence in northern Mexico, to pregnant women who literally swim the Rio Grande while in labor, so they can have their babies in Texas, where they will automatically become U.S. citizens by right of birth **. She says Congress needs to step in and provide the border doctors with the tools they need to deal with these conditions, or face the possibility of an ‘infectious epidemic.’ "

Why doesn't Congress just step up border patrols & build the fence ASAP? Wouldn't that help to alleviate the problems of taking care of ILLEGAL ALIENS? Then the doctors could concentrate on helping the legal U.S. citizens in their regions.