Hospital sentences man to death over immigration status

Party for Socialism and Liberation | William West

A people's movement in the Bay Area has succeeded in forcing a hospital to reverse its refusal to perform a kidney transplant on an undocumented worker, Jesus Navarro, because of his immigration status. Navarro's struggle illustrates the inhumanity of a for-profit health care system, as well as the racist nature of capitalism.

Navarro, 35, has been living in the United States for 16 years and has worked at Pacific Steel in Berkeley, Calif., for 14 years. His kidneys began to shut down in 2004, but Navarro continued to work for Pacific Steel in order to help support himself and his wife, Alicia, by performing his own dialysis at home. As difficult as his situation was, Navarro believed that if he could get a kidney transplant he would enjoy a normal life.Read more: http://www.pslweb.org/liberationnews/news/hospital-sentences-man-to.html