Haitians getting free U.S. health care

I do not know how many people know that the United States military was flying critically injured patients from Haiti to the United States to be treated. The United States military has now halted theses evacuation flights. Military officials said that they halted the flights due to several states refusing to take patients.

Hundreds of these Haitians have been sent to Florida to receive care. The governor of Florida Charlie Crist was baffled about the suspension due to the fact that none have been turned away from his state. Gov. Crist stated “We are welcoming Haitians with open arms and probably done more than any other state and happy to continue to do so" (USA Today, 2010).

But Kathleen Sebelius, the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States, received a letter from Gov. Crist stating the state’s hospitals are reaching a breaking point. In this same letter he asked for federal assistance to help pay for the $7 million in expenses for the Haitians care.

It is not right for a state’s governor to spend the states money on people from another country. Especially when the state is all ready out of money, and many people in his state have to pay high rates for the same care the Haitians are receiving. Not to mention that many people do not have health care, but people coming from Haiti can come here and get this care for free.

Then Gov. Crist has the nerve to ask for federal assistance to help pay for the care. Does this governor not realize what is going on in our country? He wants the nation’s tax payers to pay for the help he wanted to give to the Haitians. Most people in this nation cannot afford to give their own families health care let alone having to pay for the Haitians health care. I know I do not want to pay for the health care for the Haitians when I do not have it for my own family.