[Militiaman7]

How much is spent on illegals?

I doubt if Mexico would drain their treasury caring for sick Americans.

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

could cause longer waits in emergency rooms.

On a good day your wait could be 2 hours(right now). On a bad day it could be 7-13 hours. I am not kidding.

Basically all the patients seen in those clinics have no insurance or are on Medi-Cal

Medi-Cal does not pay. Virtually every hospital in the state is at risk. I can't count the number of times I've had a Medi-Cal card shoved under my nose with a request made in a foreign language. Now let's just assume these people are 'legal' (I know most are not). When my mother came to this country years ago her family was required to have a job waiting and a sponsor to insure they did not become a burden on the state. What happened??!!

[DoughtyOne]

I'm not going to deny that illegal aliens place dire strain on these hospital's resources, but the fact is if those hospitals go under, it won't only be them but US citizans in those areas that are going to be hard pressed to find adequate healthcare. That's what I've been saying all along.

The illegals have essentially tapped an industry that was already at the breaking point. That's why your healthcare has been jeopardized. And if the Feds do cut this support hospitals will go under and US Citizens will lose their healthcare provider. At best any of these hospitals that can stay open, will have an elevated non-compensated exposure that can do nothing but jeopardize their viability to the breaking point.

Now, California "MUST" serve any person who presents at the hospital ER by law. This means the strain on remaining hospitals will be just that much more acute.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Should this be an issue for the November election ?

How is Davis going to handle this soon to happen event?

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