First appearance on Fox: Top Republican on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) on Thursday introduced a bill that would prohibit liberal states from forcing U.S. citizens from other states to subsidize state programs that extend public health benefits to illegal immigrants. It has been submitted.
The bill, called the Protect Medicaid Act, would prevent federal funds from being used to administer state Medicaid benefits provided to non-citizens. If a state chooses to extend Medicaid benefits to illegal aliens, the bill would require the state to assume full fiscal responsibility without imposing any burden on taxpayers in other states.
Federal law already prohibits undocumented immigrants from receiving Medicaid, but some states, such as California, have circumvented this restriction by using state funds from the public health care system known as Medi-Cal. Expands Medicaid benefits to individuals without legal immigration status.
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“Medicaid for immigrants will attract more people to come to the state illegally,” Cassidy told Fox News last week. “Not only will the national debt increase.”
This bill would require the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to investigate how states that provide Medicaid services to undocumented individuals maintain separation of federal and state funds. The purpose is to mandate that The investigation will also examine whether these states employ loophole strategies such as provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers to manipulate the federal budget. Additionally, we will assess whether individuals without legal status would benefit from covered outpatient drugs and whether this would impact prices for the American public.
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In the Golden State, Nearly 700,000 illegal immigrants As of Jan. 1, people between the ages of 26 and 49 are eligible for health care, which will cost California taxpayers an estimated $3.1 billion. For people in this age group who are in California illegally, the health insurance subsidy, covered by the state's general fund, is worth about $4,058 a year.
Newsom announces California plans to begin offering health insurance to additional undocumented immigrants, in addition to the 1.1 million people already in the Medi-Cal system. More than a third of California's dwindling population of 39 million are enrolled in the Medi-Cal program, which also covers transgender procedures such as gender reassignment surgery.
The bill comes after more than 302,000 migrants were recorded attempting to cross the U.S. southern border from Dec. 1 to Dec. 31, the highest number ever for a single month. It has been submitted. Additionally, the number of encounters with migrants in a month exceeded 300,000 for the first time.
