This is what I was thinking, but does comment from Ken sound correct?
Ken Cuccinelli, a top deputy at DHS, told National Review that he’d asked DHS OIG to expedite its review — though Cuccinelli said the allegations had not been backed up by records or requests for payment provided by ICE.
Even if it does, Dr Mengele will be praised by Carlson, Ingraham and the rest as a real hero. If those women had stayed on their side of the border none of this would had happened.
What I think we’re dealing with is a group of people who want to sterilize Latina women. Sure, I assume the doctor is billing the government. But the reason this is happening is a lot darker than that.
ICE needs to be disbanded which was a rallying cry for protesters when they were protesting the border mess and lots of people here freaked out over it.
I don’t think being a skilled immigrant from India or Pakistan (judging by the name) precludes believing that poor immigrants from South and Central America shouldn’t make their own reproductive choices
There’s a long history in this country of immigrants proving their Americanness by turning on the next group of immigrants.
I doubt ICE would have paid. The receipts in question would need to come from Medicaid, or perhaps some other segment of health and human services that pays for detainee medical care
Yes, it goes without saying.
But this also highlights a lack of accountability, a lack of looking at the billing. I mean I assume Dr. Amin was not the only doctor for women’s health that the clinic had. So weren’t the number if hysterectomies greater than that of the other doctors?
Yes, they all need to go. If a community comes together they can make it happen–or at least keep new ones from being built. Exactly that happened in my county a couple of years ago when a somewhat unlikely alliance of Mennonites, Hispanics, and business owners banded together and kept out an ICE detention center–CoreCivic, IIRC.
Hysterectomies are pretty easy to justify – and they’re cash cows for enterprising surgeons. Approximately 33% of women have had hysterectomies in the US by the age of 60, and it’s estimated that at least about 20% of these are unnecessary. If you make the presence of malignancy the dividing line, 90% of hysterectomies are unnecessary, and the disproportionate number of these being performed among African American women in the South earned hysterectomy the name “Mississippi Appendectomies.”
Interestingly enough, appendectomies were the second most common unnecessary surgical procedure in the US, with no gender differential. But appendectomy abuse has declined. In truth there are fewer unnecessary hysterectomies than formerly, but there is still rather widespread abuse.