Posted on 05/25/2025 9:49:16 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that there were “more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid.”
Johnson said, “We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. There‘s a lot of misinformation out there about this.”
He continued, “The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our work to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse. And what do I mean by that? You got more than 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid. Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S. citizens. It‘s intended for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers, the disabled, the elderly. They are protected in what we‘re doing because we‘re preserving the resources for those who need it most.”
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Sorry - that is incorrect.
Only 58% of the entire USA population are non-Hispanic white people.
Also, non-Hispanic white Americans are older than any other USA ethnic group - which means LESS fertile.
Medicaid - by federal statute - is available to any pregnant female, or child under 18, present in the USA, if their income is below a certain threshold.
In other words - about 1.5 million USA Anchor Babies, born to illegal immigrants, in the last five years, were paid for, and are still receiving, Medicaid coverage.
There are about 85 million people on Medicaid. Many are elderly in nursing homes, many of whom having been relieved of their assets by well-off offspring for just that purpose ....
You mean something beyond passing the billthrough the House? Is the Speaker supposed to sign it too?
exactly. It’s almost like both sides want illegals getting free everything.
One problem with that theory...
Why would affluent elderly parents give their children money - then, voluntarily live in a Medicaid nursing home?
I am thinking that happens like - almost never?
AS IT’S CLEAR THERE ARE HUGE NUMBERS OF OTHERS WHO STILL FAIL TO GRASP THE MESS THE DEMOCRATS & RINOS HAVE CREATED, PLEASE SHARE WIDELY.
RAB
As Department of Government Efficiency continues pursuing its mission, we are astonished to learn just how extensive the tentacles of the Deep State/Intelligence Community reach. It almost seems as if every ox in the country is getting gored, as Federal expenditures get examined.
Not just for the Federal workforce, but we are learning that thousands of seemingly innocuous business are now threatened by the coming restrictions in Federal money getting sloshed around. Universities are the obvious example, but accounting firms, IT firms, law offices, domestic and international charities and Big Pharma are beginning to scream that their livelihood is being shut off.
Who would have imagined how much of the Great American Public is totally dependent on the $7 trillion borrowed dollars that the Federal government has been handing out like candy? DOGE loses its public appeal as people begin to realize how it will impact them. As I have said repeatedly, waste, fraud and abuse have a substantial Democrat Party constituency. The Democrat Party and Congress have bought a lot of goodwill through free money for little return.
Making America Great Again is not as popular as it was earlier, when the first fraud and abuse were being identified. Now our citizenry is beginning to comprehend that President Trump and DOGE are serious. Well, that’s what they voted for. American Greatness does not flow from government handouts.
GUY MILLER
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President Trump says illegal alien criminals must be deported. Democrats and Big News Media adamantly insist that immigrants commit less crime than native-born Americans. That is true, if you clarify you are talking only about LEGAL immigrants. They are so grateful to be welcomed in the country that they have little motivation to become criminals [Ilhan Omar excepted].
Illegals, on the other hand, are frequently criminals before they even arrive, coming from countries with a culture of violent crime. In border states, nearly half of all incarcerated criminals are illegals. Similar in Blue Hive sanctuary cities. It seems that people who break our laws to get here are not inclined to obey our laws, once they arrive.
The Democrat Party tries to conflate the law-abiding nature of legal immigrants as an excuse to oppose President Trump’s efforts to deport violent criminal illegals. And Big News Media are cheering them on. That is the nature of discourse in our country these days.
GUY MILLER
I am thinking that happens like - almost never?
Why? That's easy: to keep it away from the nursing home.
Geez, there is a regular cottage industry dedicated to protecting assets from nursing homes. It is a major aspect of estate planning.
One member of my own in-law family was heck-bent on divvying things up because "Ma would get just as good of care" either way." The more responsible heads prevailed, ftr.
More like 1.4 million households, with 2-10 children.
Blame the dems for that.
EMTALA: Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act & Amendments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Medical_Treatment_and_Active_Labor_Act
Passed in 1986 as part of COBRA legislation to stop “wallet biopsies and patient dumping.” It is an “unfunded mandate” — Any Medicare/Medicaid-participating hospital is bound by its provisions. Imminent Childbirth is considered an “emergency” situation requiring screening and provision of necessary services for both the mother and baby. This covers everybody regardless of imigration legal status. IF you have no way to pay for this care, legal or not, you are still obligated for the bill.
Many technically “poor” people based on govt. income/asset limits don’t qualify for Medicaid as they make too much money but not enough to cover thousands of dollars for hospital care. Obamacare was supposed to “fix” all that, but that’s a mixed bag for sure. If the hospitals aren’t going to get paid any other way, and EMTALA says they still have to provide emergency care to one & all, and the Social Workers can get you signed up for Medicaid no problem, whose to blame really?
My point is no one in charge wants the problem solved for whatever reason and We the Duped Taxpayers must subsidize it all. Hospitalas have a monopoly and have never had to justify their “cost-based” Charge system since the DRG system was instituted in 1983.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group
Hey, are you going to do something about this travesty or are you just regurgitate what should be done? Get these criminals off public dough and they’ll leave the US.
Just make noise.
Told you so. Sen. Paul is correct.
Speaker Johnson clashes with Rand Paul over ‘wimpy’ spending cuts in Trump’s bill
https://www.foxnews.com/.../speaker-johnson-clashes-rand...
“I supported the tax cuts in 2017. I support making them permanent, so I support that part of the bill. I support spending cuts. I think the cuts currently in the bill are wimpy and anemic, but I still would support the bill, even with wimpy and anemia cuts, if they weren’t going to explode the debt. The problem is the math doesn’t add up. They’re going to explode the debt. The House’s is $4 trillion. The Senate’s actually been talking about exploding the debt by $5 trillion,” Paul said.
There are also the relatives ‘back home’ who get a diagnosis of some dreaded illness and then go visit their relatives or friends in the USA and then check into a hospital here and claim poverty.
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