California exploiting Medicaid 'loophole' to pay millions for illegal immigrants' health care, study says
Story by Elizabeth Elkind • 14h
FIRST ON FOX: California is funneling millions of federal taxpayer dollars into paying for illegal immigrants’ health care, a new study claims.
"They are exploiting an existing loophole within law," Paul Winfree, president and CEO of the Economic Policy Innovation Center (EPIC), told Fox News Digital of the Sunshine State.
"States can do these provider taxes to funnel money back to the state, that they are then using to pay for, to put illegal immigrants on Medicaid. That’s quite literally what’s going on."
The paper being released by EPIC and the Paragon Health Institute draws a line between California’s Medicaid provider taxes and what, on paper, appears to be nearly $4 billion of their own state funding going toward illegal immigrants’ healthcare and other initiatives.
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