If only....
Asylum, refugee, and TPS immigrants are eligible. In fact, most of them get work authorization, too.
Children under 18 and pregnant women are eligible for everything.
Green Card holders are eligible for everything. When their elderly parents arrive through chain migration, the parents are eligible for Supplemental Security Income (which is Social Security for people who do not have 40 quarters of contributions) and Medicaid (instead of Medicare).
And this is, and has ALWAYS been the reason that our health insurance premiums have been going up far beyond any explicable economic explanation for 10-15 years. They blame it on the baby boomers, but it has also coincided with a vast increase in new arrivals of “refugees” and illegal immigrants.
Not only do we as taxpayers get hit for the women, children, refugees, etc. who are inexplicably allowed to apply for these programs...we also pay on the other end for the uninsured who just “show up” at the emergency room due to increased overall costs.
Say an illegal gets in an accident, shot, stabbed, has a heart attack...whatever. They are provided the exact same treatment as those of us who pay 10K plus a year for heath insurance. We’ve all seen stories where these parasites have transplants, dialysis, etc. They don’t pay a dime...the hospital considers it “charity care” and just adds it to the “expense” line at the end of the year at the full retail price. They provide NO charity...their paying customers are the ones who cover it in increased costs.
It’s not that hard to figure out.