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When uninsured immigrants are hurt, who pays?
Byline: Alan Bavley
KANSAS CITY, Mo. _ A car wreck in November put Caesar Sacaries-Barrios, 23, in a coma. He has been recuperating at Alpine North nursing home. Sacaries-Barrios, who is an undocumented immigrant, has no health insurance.
Sacaries-Barrios is lucky to be alive _ and to still be in the United States.
The restaurant worker is an undocumented immigrant originally from Guatemala. He barely remembers the wreck that left him in a coma at North Kansas City Hospital.
He knows nothing about the estimated $250,000 the hospital has spent to keep him alive.
He's still unaware that the hospital _ faced with the ...
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