THE ILLNESS EXPERIENCE OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS WITH END-STAGE RENAL DISEASE
Francisco is an undocumented immigrant who works as a landscaperand has been living in the U.S. for the last 35 years.
He regularly sees a physician and pays in cash for his clinics visits and medications; he was diagnosed with CKD 8 years ago, but now is approaching ESRD. His extended family (some ofthem living legally in the US) are potential living kidney donors and are willing to undergo testing.
http://www.nephjc.com/news/2017/2/23/immigrant
So... what? The US taxpayers are to be on the hook for a very expensive kidney transplant surgery?
Swell.
What country can legal US citizens go to for free surgery? My neighbor, fully insured, just had to pay $6,500 over and above what her insurance covered.... which was about $140,000.