American citizens pay $18.5 billion on Medicaid for illegal aliens .
"But while federal law generally bars illegal immigrants from being covered by Medicaid, a little-known part of the state-federal health insurance program for the poor pays about $2 billion a year for emergency treatment for a group of patients who, according to hospitals, mostly comprise illegal immigrants. Most of it goes to reimburse hospitals for delivering babies for women who show up in their emergency rooms, according to interviews with hospital officials and studies.
The funding — which has been around since the late 1980s and is less than 1 percent of the cost of Medicaid — underscores the political and practical challenges of refusing to cover an entire class of people. Congress approved the program after lawmakers required hospitals to screen and stabilize all emergency patients regardless of their insurance or citizenship status."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/...caid-treatment
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
― Charles Dickens
Teach yourself something ..... Just walk into a hospital emergency waiting room and look around !
Calling desperate refugees "invaders" is equivalent to having the words "fucking idiot" tattooed on one's own forehead.
Just as voting for Trump is the moral equivalent of terrorism or child molestation.
And now that the pachys have all genuflected to their new leader,
voting for ANY Republican is the moral equivalent of terrorism or child molestation.
What this website should be about is figuring out the appropriate final solution to the Trumpanzee problem.
Fortunately, most of the idiots likely to make ignorant responses are on my ignore list,
but intelligent responses are welcome.
Niftydicklick ..... You need to open your wallet and put YOUR money where your mouth is .
kudzu (10-20-2018)
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