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"Illegals" can't use full Medicaid, they can only receive emergency care which hospitals are required to give by law. That's what that $4.5B figure is – emergen
by nozzlegear 1y ago
"Illegals" can't use full Medicaid, they can only receive emergency care which hospitals are required to give by law. That's what that $4.5B figure is – emergency care, labor, delivery, etc. Furthermore, undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year, including the payroll taxes that fund Medicaid and Medicare. Taxpayers aren't on the hook, because these immigrants are already paying in for services they can't even use.
- OrvalWintermute 1y agoMedicaid & Medicare Fraud is a big deal. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/how-medicare-and-medicaid-fraud-became-a-100b-problem-for-the-us.html https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/09/how-medicare-and-medicaid-fr...
- anigbrowl 1y agoYou know most of that is committed domestically, yes? Here's a famous example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Fraud_investigation_and_settlement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott#Fraud_investigation... The CEO of the company that committed this record-setting fraud became governor of Florida and is now a US Senator.
- jahewson 1y agoSo they can use (expensive) emergency care but also they are paying for (cheap) services they can’t even use? That’s some interesting logic. Clearly they can and do use some of these services.
- nozzlegear 1y agoI'd wager that long-term care such as chemotherapy is much more expensive than one-off emergency services like broken legs or going into labor. > That’s some interesting logic. Say what you mean. > Clearly they can and do use some of these services. I never said they don't – in fact I said the opposite of that.