Our country is massively in debt, and healthcare fraud is off the charts currently. We don't need more people exploiting the system. Legal immigrants pay into

Our country is massively in debt, and healthcare fraud is off the charts currently. We don't need more people exploiting the system. Legal immigrants pay into the system, and do their fair share. The illegals broadly do not support federal expenses. > Personally, I'm ok paying 30 bucks a year to make sure fellow human beings in the US don't die of preventable causes in our streets EMTALA forces hospitals to treat emergent conditions regardless of ability to pay/status. But what you are talking about as "preventable causes" sounds more like chronic conditions and universalized healthcare that does not meet the definition of emergent situations.