Hospitals Deporting Uninsured Patients


Deborah Sontag | | Tuesday, August 5, 2008


OLOMC , Guatemala -- High in the hills of Guatemala, shut inside a one-room house, Luis Alberto Jimenez has no idea of the legal battle that swirls around him in the lowlands of Florida.



Beaming at his toothless mother, his sole caregiver, Jimenez remains cheerily oblivious that he has come to represent the collision of two flawed U.S. systems, immigration and health care.



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