Donald Trump: ‘We’re Not in the Hospital Business’ for Migrants

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CHARLIE SPIERING 2 Jul 2019

President Donald Trump defended on Monday the treatment of detained migrants and illegal immigrants caught crossing over the border.

“We’re not in the hospital business. We’re in the border security business at the border,” Trump said. “And all of a sudden, we’re forced to be in the hospital business.”

The president spoke to reporters about the flood of migrants crossing into the United States after signing a bill of emergency funding to improve the conditions of border detainment facilities.

Trump said that most migrants and illegal immigrants were coming to the United States for economic reasons.

“They’re coming up because they want a piece of what’s happening in this country. They want the economy. They want the jobs,” he said. “They’re not coming up, for the most part, for other reasons.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/02/donald-trump-not-hospital-business-migrants/

[Fishrrman]

“We’re not in the hospital business. We’re in the border security business at the border”

He's right, once again.

[Chosen Daughter]

The Cost of Providing Health Care to Illegal Aliens
 by David Catron

January 15, 2019, 5:50 AM

Excerpt:


Most of this money pays for delivering babies when patients materialize in emergency rooms in active labor. Pursuant to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), all hospitals must provide emergency medical treatment to all comers regardless of ability to pay or any other consideration. It is common for women of obviously foreign descent and no English to appear in ERs just as they are about to give birth. Hospitals cannot turn them away (and wouldn’t do so if they could). Medicaid retroactively covers them and pays some of the treatment costs.

Another potential source of health care savings that could go toward the wall is the taxpayer money that now goes to illegal immigrants, under the radar, pursuant to the skulduggery of state and local Democrats who deliberately circumvent the federal government’s ostensible ban on funding such medical services. In 2016, the Wall Street Journal reported that 80 percent of the counties with the highest number of illegal immigrants provide them “free” health care services, including surgery and prescription drugs. Extrapolated across the nation, this amounts to billions of dollars in care.

According to the Journal, illegal immigrants receive taxpayer-funded care in Los Angeles, CA (135,000), Santa Barbara, CA (54,000), Boston, MA (103,000), Queens County, NY (71,000), Montgomery County, MD (25,000), ad infinitum. And this is, to coin a phrase, just the tip of the iceberg. There is still the free care provided to uninsured illegals by physicians, and hospital cost-shifting. Christopher Conover writes in Forbes, that all of this added up to about $11.9 billion in medical care for unauthorized immigrants with no insurance coverage in 2016. He breaks it down thus:

https://spectator.org/the-cost-of-providing-health-care-to-illegal-aliens/

EMTALA was a law signed by Reagan that guaranteed treatment regardless of if you could pay or whether you were a citizen.  This has closed hospitals and there has been price fixing for privately insured people. So we end up paying inflated medical prices to pay for people who use free health care.