Posted on 01/27/2025 7:25:55 AM PST by Beowulf9
Article Dig Deeper (The Center Square) - Congressman Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., has introduced a bill that would prevent states such as California from allowing illegal immigrants to enroll in Medicaid. Kiley estimates this would save California $6.5 billion per year; in January 2024, the state expanded Medicaid enrollment to include all illegal immigrants.
“This common sense legislation ensures that taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits are preserved for those who lawfully qualify, prioritizing the needs of American citizens and legal residents while promoting fairness and fiscal responsibility,” Kiley said in a statement on the bill.
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“California is spending $6.5 billion each year providing free health care to everyone here illegally,” Kiley said Kiley X. “Meanwhile, many of our own citizens can't even get in to see a doctor.”
California, which has sanctuary state laws limiting state and local law enforcement agencies from actively assisting federal immigration officials, is currently in a special session called by Gov. Gavin Newsom to “Trump-proof” the state, chiefly by providing $25 million for state and local lawsuits against the Trump administration, and another $25 million for legal aid, largely for deportation defense.
California is home to approximately 2.7 million illegal immigrants, and filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to illegal immigrants. A preliminary injunction against the order is now in effect until the matter can be fully adjudicated in court.
Jeez it should not take a bill to do this.
Cut off all the “gimmees” and they’ll have no incentive to stay.
Good idea as that is how some of the liberal Demoncrats are giving free healthcare to illegals in some states.
Exclude all non-citizens from Medicaid.
California is welcomed to waste its dollars for whatever they seem to like. However, we all are subsidizing Medicaid and with it we are subsidizing illegal immigration.
Vote YES!
Medicaid is jointly funded by the federal government and individual state governments. The federal government typically covers about 69% of the costs, while states are responsible for the remaining share, which can vary by state.
Good! Free health care attracts every freeloader in the world to the USA.
Can there be anything as stupid as hurting your own citizens to provide illegals with housing, food, education, health care, mobile phones, and lots more freebies?
US taxpayers are paying for medical care for foreigners?
“Jeez it should not take a bill to do this.”
Unbelievable isn’t it? SMH
This is very true. Like everything government touches, it's slow, bloated, bureaucratic and expensive. Medicaid doesn't pay doctors much, it pays very late, and one is tied by onerous rules. Many doctors avoid taking such patients.
I've seen honorable Medicaid doctors who have chosen to work at clinics serving poor who try to make the best of it - and I've seen many more doctors who just cycle patients through their practice, ordering tests or medicines and visits in a way to game the system and get maximum payout from Fed.gov.
What about ‘emergency’ at the local hospital? Drop ‘em off in London and they’ll feel right at home.
Exactly. Even the lawfully present immigrants should be excluded. Citizens only.
We need to find out where this bill is. If in committee we need to blast each committee member urging them to vote it out and get it to the floor for a house vote
From 4 days ago
Massive Machinery at the border
Building the Wall!!!
30 minutes
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So, it’s us, residents of states other than California, who pay for illegal aliens’ Medicaid benefits in the said California? Wonderful, the more illegal aliens in CA, the merrier!
The bill should also explicitly require that any state which extends it own Medicaid dollars to illegals will have the equivalent amount removed from the available federal dollars to their program.
BTTT
The demoncrats in their mad scheme to import voters are thumbing their nose at every rule and regulation meant to benefit citizens...in order to basically “bribe” illegals to eventually vote for them.” Humanitarian care” is their cover. A bold faced way to buy votes. Disgusting.
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