State Pays For Illegal Alien Inmate's Transplant
Oregon Health Plan Covers Mexican Convict's Treatment
PORTLAND, Posted 5:10 p.m. PDT July 13, 2000 -- The Oregon Department of Corrections will shell out big bucks to give a sex offender a
potentially life-saving bone-marrow transplant.
KOIN 6 News reports that Miguel
Castro-Garcia went to prison last
March after being convicted of sexual
abuse. At the time, he had been
fighting leukemia for two years.
Soledad Rodriguez divorced Miguel
Castro-Garcia last year, after he had
threatened her with a gun and sexually abused her sister and two of her daughters.
Rodriguez says that before Castro-Garcia was charged with the sex crimes, his doctors at St. Vincent Hospital told him that he needed a bone-marrow transplant. He began receiving treatment under the Oregon Health Plan.
A donor would have to be his sister, who was in Mexico at the time. By the time she arrived in Portland and Castro-Garcia was ready for the operation -- he was already behind bars.
The department of corrections said in a written statement that it "provides
medically necessary care and treatment to inmates -- that generally coincides with the standard of care in the community."
Castro-Garcia is now a patient at Oregon Health Sciences University awaiting the transplant -- at taxpayer's expense. The Oregon Health Plan refused to pay for a life-saving operation for a teenager with cystic fibrosis earlier this year.
Castro-Garcia still has almost four years to serve in Oregon prisons for his crimes. The immigration service wants to deport him back to Mexico after he is released.
His family says that he could never afford this operation in Mexico.
A bone marrow transplant at the hospital costs an average of $111,000, not including doctor's professional fees. Neither the hospital nor the department of corrections would confirm any information about
Castro-Garcia. The news station says that family members confirmed the facts of this story.
f*ck!f*ck!f*ck!F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't take care of one of ours but
some @#%$in wetback damned childrapist sob get's covered for $111.000?!?!?! I'm
going @#%$in BLIND! I've worked like a dog for YEARS...still do because I can't get
the @#%$in soscial security @#%$s to do the right @#%$in thing!
I'm sleeping two hours a night from the stress and from @#%$ like my feet
hurting...can't see in the mornings because of the stress...and this Mexican @#%$
get's MY money?!?!!?!?
better be glad I can't drive and they aren't close enough for me to walk to...I'd leave
now so I could be there to beat their teeth outta their @#%$in heads in the morning! sonsofbitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oregon Health Plan Covers Mexican Convict's Treatment
PORTLAND, Posted 5:10 p.m. PDT July 13, 2000 -- The Oregon Department of Corrections will shell out big bucks to give a sex offender a
potentially life-saving bone-marrow transplant.
KOIN 6 News reports that Miguel
Castro-Garcia went to prison last
March after being convicted of sexual
abuse. At the time, he had been
fighting leukemia for two years.
Soledad Rodriguez divorced Miguel
Castro-Garcia last year, after he had
threatened her with a gun and sexually abused her sister and two of her daughters.
Rodriguez says that before Castro-Garcia was charged with the sex crimes, his doctors at St. Vincent Hospital told him that he needed a bone-marrow transplant. He began receiving treatment under the Oregon Health Plan.
A donor would have to be his sister, who was in Mexico at the time. By the time she arrived in Portland and Castro-Garcia was ready for the operation -- he was already behind bars.
The department of corrections said in a written statement that it "provides
medically necessary care and treatment to inmates -- that generally coincides with the standard of care in the community."
Castro-Garcia is now a patient at Oregon Health Sciences University awaiting the transplant -- at taxpayer's expense. The Oregon Health Plan refused to pay for a life-saving operation for a teenager with cystic fibrosis earlier this year.
Castro-Garcia still has almost four years to serve in Oregon prisons for his crimes. The immigration service wants to deport him back to Mexico after he is released.
His family says that he could never afford this operation in Mexico.
A bone marrow transplant at the hospital costs an average of $111,000, not including doctor's professional fees. Neither the hospital nor the department of corrections would confirm any information about
Castro-Garcia. The news station says that family members confirmed the facts of this story.
f*ck!f*ck!f*ck!F*CK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! can't take care of one of ours but
some @#%$in wetback damned childrapist sob get's covered for $111.000?!?!?! I'm
going @#%$in BLIND! I've worked like a dog for YEARS...still do because I can't get
the @#%$in soscial security @#%$s to do the right @#%$in thing!
I'm sleeping two hours a night from the stress and from @#%$ like my feet
hurting...can't see in the mornings because of the stress...and this Mexican @#%$
get's MY money?!?!!?!?
better be glad I can't drive and they aren't close enough for me to walk to...I'd leave
now so I could be there to beat their teeth outta their @#%$in heads in the morning! sonsofbitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Satanta, the Whitebear
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My</A> Disability petition: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/DisbHelp/petition.html