No. of Recommendations: 3
...because certain states would try to pretend that money isn't fungible. They'd use federal matching dollars for Medicaid to prop up their illegal alien healthcare programs. Obamacare also played a role, but after Joe Wilson was pilloried for stating the obvious you didn't hear many people bringing it up.
Well now that there's hay to be made, the actual truth can come out!
lol.
chicagotribune.com - Immigrant medicaid accessIllinois among Democrat-led states rolling back Medicaid access for people lacking permanent legal statusYou don't say.
At least seven states and the District of Columbia have offered coverage for immigrants since mostly 2020. But three of them have done an about-face, ending or limiting coverage for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who aren’t in the U.S. legally in California, Illinois and Minnesota.
The programs cost way more than officials had projected at a time when the states are facing multibillion-dollar deficits now and in the future. In Illinois, adult immigrants ages 42-64 without legal status have lost their health care to save an estimated $404 million. All adult immigrants in Minnesota no longer have access to the state program, saving nearly $57 million. In California, no one will automatically lose coverage, but new enrollments for adults will stop in 2026 to save more than $3 billion over several years.
Cuts in all three states were backed by Democratic governors who once championed expanding health coverage to immigrants.
The Trump administration this week shared the home addresses, ethnicities and personal data of all Medicaid recipients with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. Twenty states, including California, Illinois and Minnesota, have sued.Let's note also that for years the left has wanted national databases for all sorts of things...now they don't want them.
