Migrant health care: Who pays the bill?

[...] Martinez fell off the shop’s roof and landed unceremoniously at the intersection of one of America’s most vexing ethical, political and financial conundrums: the care of severely sick or injured illegal immigrants. The UT Medical Branch at Galveston’s solution, after saving Martinez’s life, was to try to persuade the Mexican national, now paralyzed from the chest down, to return to his …