Possibly, but likely they would have just been an ‘emergency room’ burden on the county hospital like the illegals. In, treated and out. No bill. That’s why when you have a legitimate emergency, you have to wade through illegals and poors.
Formal Medicaid requires things like asset disclosure and there are limits. Assets above a certain amount are taken as the accruing bills grow. This is typically the time when heirs start to talk their Medicaid parents into bequeathing off their assets to them early so the gubment don’t take them. That usually doesn’t work because by the time they think to do it, the reach back period is in force.
Yesterday’s “day without immigrants” certainly didn’t apply to the emergency room; I guess they took off work to get more free sh!t...