Democrats ARE spending money on healthcare for illegal migrants — in California, it’s $6.4 billion
In fact, last year, nationwide Medicaid spending on “emergency care for undocumented aliens” almost tripled — because the state of California used it as a method of laundering federal money to fund a comprehensive health benefit for its unauthorized residents.
Illegal immigrants are supposed to be prohibited from receiving Medicaid, as they are from obtaining Medicare and Obamacare subsidies — but an exception to this is that states may claim federal Medicaid funding for hospitals to provide “emergency care” for unauthorized immigrants.
The surge in this expenditure was entirely due to the state of California, where spending suddenly leaped from $1.6 billion to $6.4 billion.
But a deeper problem remains: The enormous and open-ended discretion Medicaid gives states to claim federal funding makes it hard for the feds to ensure that the program’s expenditures are reserved for its intended purposes.
