Bill Cassidy Proposes to Prevent Americans from Subsidizing Health Care for Illegal Aliens

[Chosen Daughter]

Bill Cassidy Proposes to Prevent Americans from Subsidizing Health Care for Illegal Aliens

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and other Senate Republicans proposed Sunday to block leftist states from forcing Americans to subsidize programs that expand benefits to illegal immigrants.
Sens. Cassidy, John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), David Perdue (R-GA), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Protect Medicaid Act (S. 131) to ensure that leftist states cannot bilk Medicaid to subsidize programs that expand Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants...........


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/16/bill-cassidy-proposes-prevent-americans-subsidizing-health-care-illegal-aliens/

This is what we need to see and more. 

[libertybele]

Bill Cassidy Proposes to Prevent Americans from Subsidizing Health Care for Illegal Aliens

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and other Senate Republicans proposed Sunday to block leftist states from forcing Americans to subsidize programs that expand benefits to illegal immigrants.
Sens. Cassidy, John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), David Perdue (R-GA), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) introduced the Protect Medicaid Act (S. 131) to ensure that leftist states cannot bilk Medicaid to subsidize programs that expand Medicaid benefits to illegal immigrants...........


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/06/16/bill-cassidy-proposes-prevent-americans-subsidizing-health-care-illegal-aliens/

This is what we need to see and more.

That's all fine and good, but at least in my area, no hospital is allowed to deny emergency care to anyone.  So how do they prevent treating illegals??  Our hospitals are already filled up beyond capacity; I'm talking waiting in the hallways and being treated in recliners because there are no more beds, or rooms available. Not a whole lot of privacy and so much for private health information staying private. I went to e.r. a couple of times in the past year and at one of them I felt like I was in a 3rd world country.   Sure it's easy to say that they need to add on ... but an overwhelming amount of $$ is going out to treat people without insurance.  I have seen our hospitals decline dramatically in the past 5 years.  Sad.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

This bill is so blatantly practical, it will be rejected wholeheartedly by the Dems.

The best way to achieve the objective is to totally cut 100% of federal funds going to health care, and instead permit all government funds for healthcare subsidies be provided by the states themselves.

The results would be a catastrophic implosion for those states like California which demand their taxpayers subsidize illegals as the illegals would flock to those states, and the states that choose not to subsidize illegals reap the bonanza of lessened financial burdens in healthcare and lessened illegals.

Funny how federalism works.

[libertybele]

This bill is so blatantly practical, it will be rejected wholeheartedly by the Dems.

The best way to achieve the objective is to totally cut 100% of federal funds going to health care, and instead permit all government funds for healthcare subsidies be provided by the states themselves.

The results would be a catastrophic implosion for those states like California which demand their taxpayers subsidize illegals as the illegals would flock to those states, and the states that choose not to subsidize illegals reap the bonanza of lessened financial burdens in healthcare and lessened illegals.



Funny how federalism works.

Though I believe you are correct that the DEMS will never accept this, it could also have people once again leaving blue states and moving to more affordable red states.  Perhaps even changing some states from red to blue.

[Mod2]

Topics merged.

[Formerly Once-Ler]

This is what we need to see and more.

Yet we know this show bill will not pass the House.  I'm looking forward to more Obamacare repeals too.

[libertybele]

Yet we know this show bill will not pass the House.  I'm looking forward to more Obamacare repeals too.

Just because the GOP feels that a bill will never clear the DEM obstruction, should they just not try?

[Formerly Once-Ler]

Just because the GOP feels that a bill will never clear the DEM obstruction, should they just not try?

Of course not.  When the bill can not possibly become law is when the GOP passes their best show bills.  The ones they point to at re-election and say I voted for a balanced budget, border security, and abortion restrictions...and the best thing is they can keep voting for the same DOA bills year after year.

[Smokin Joe]

Just because the GOP feels that a bill will never clear the DEM obstruction, should they just not try?

It would be nice if they did, for a change. That way, if they ever get the majority back they could have bills ready to go in the hopper.