A Health Care story Hillary won't tell!

A young girl was born with a liver disorder. Over the years this young girl received three liver transplants - twice in 1989 and a third in 1998. Unable to afford health care these operations were paid for by the state.

The young lady, now 21 with no insurance, is again in need of another liver transplant or she will die. But she is ineligible for state-funded health care due to age limits. Learning of a little known law she is again receiving free health care and is back on the waiting list for her 4th liver transplant.

So this could be considered a "happy" story about healthcare and one case where it works - right? Sure only if your living in Mexifornia and are an illegal immigrant...

From the LA Times --

Late last month Puente learned of another, little-known option for patients with certain healthcare needs. If she notified U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that she was in the country illegally, state health officials might grant her full Medi-Cal coverage. Puente did so, her benefits were restored and she is now awaiting a fourth transplant at UCLA.

That break can be life-threatening for people like Puente. "It doesn't matter if I'm undocumented," she said. "They should take care of me at UCLA for the rest of my life because I've been there since I was a baby."

If you are a U.S. citizen - you get treated like a U.S. citizen. Sir, you are a legal U.S. citizen... end of the line please --

Larry Gonzalez, a U.S. citizen who has hepatitis C, has known for a decade that he needs a new liver but was just placed on the transplant waiting list last week.

"Why do we have to get in line behind immigrants, foreigners, when we have enough people here to fill the hospitals?" asked Gonzalez, 54, who lives in Ventura. "It just seems obvious to me that we shouldn't be taking a back seat."

Government health care - what a peach!