Immigration Book Post #5

Quote #1:

1. "The curtain squeals and Julian's face appears.
'I'm sorry,' I say. 'Can you tell me friends to go home now, that I'm fine?' He nods and smiles broadly.
'Sure. I'm sure they're ready. I'll tell them.' He turns to leave me but then remains. He stares at his clipboard for a long moment, then looks at me through the corner of his eye. 'You fight in that war, Valentino, the civil war?' I tell him no, that I was not a soldier. 'Oh. Well good, then," he says. 'I'm glad.'
And he leaves." a conversation between Julian, the doctor assisting Valentino with his wounds, and Valentino. It is narrated by Valentino on page 317.

2. I found this quote as a bit of an enigma. The hospital, on a whole, is ignoring Valentino's more than minor wounds, simply because he doesn't have health insurance.

3. (Personal Connection) During the Rock The Vote project one of the presentations I saw was about healthcare for the non-insured, and how they had to wait for very long amounts of time before they receive anything close to or signaling help. As I read this quote, this presentation popped into my head, and the quote started to make a little more sense.

4.Were you in Valentino's position, would you have complained about the long wait to the hospital, or just sat it out? OR, would you have walked out and left?