Illegal immigrants, as well as legal immigrants in the country less than five years, are not eligible for free healthcare through Medicaid. A 2007 study estimated that less than 1 percent of Medicaid spending went to healthcare for illegal immigrants. Proponents of subsidized healthcare for immigrants argue that increased access to basic preventive care will lower the demand for costly emergency care. Opponents argue that immigrants in the healthcare system run the risk of becoming "permanent patients," because they have no relatives, insurance or an established address where they can go once released.
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Response rates from 9.2k 73102 voters.
25% Yes |
75% No |
13% Yes |
68% No |
7% Yes, if they pay taxes |
3% No, but they should be allowed to purchase private healthcare |
3% Yes, but only for life threatening emergencies or infectious diseases |
2% No, and we should deport all illegal immigrants |
1% Yes, and grant them citizenship |
1% No, but their children should have access |
1% Yes, but they should be deported after treatment |
1% No, and the government should never subsidize healthcare |
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@4S4CH924yrs4Y
This is insane. How can you use illegal and benefits in same sentence? Someone should not become a citizen just because they gave birth here. Mexico for sure does not allow this, and the rest of the world with exception for two other countries. This way of taxing others to pay for such expenses is insane.
@8L3QY7Z4yrs4Y
If they weren't born in america, no if their children were born in america, yes
@8MRSWZJ4yrs4Y
Yes, as long as the illegal immigrants in question are good, honest people with no criminal record who plan on becoming citizens. Anyone should be granted access for life threatening emergencies or infectious diseases, but then they need to be provided assistance to become a legal citizen.
@4Q2ZXW94yrs4Y
Absolutely not. Illegal Aliens are not immigrants!! They have illegally invaded my country.
@4WXYGMH4yrs4Y
YES, WE ARE THE RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH... our insurance companies and hospitals are making BILLIONS!!!
@4Q6ZSJK4yrs4Y
They should get NOTHING but a ticket back home...
We have VETERANS dying because THEY can't GET any healthcare, they're HOMELESS, and JOBLESS, but OBAMA is giving the ILLEGALS FREE DENTAL, HEALTH, MEDICAL, FREE FOOD, FREE MONEY, FREE OR SUBSIDISED HOUSING, HEATING ASSISTANCE, and whatever the hell ELSE he can think of, while OUR CITIZENS GET NOTHING...
Social Security & disability recipients got NO INCREASE this year, most likely because OBAMA GAVE OUR MONEY TO ALL THE ILLEGALS...
THAT'S JUST WRONG!!!
@4PXJH634yrs4Y
Illegal aliens or if you must "immigrants", have broken our laws of entry, and should be eligible for nothing. that said, if there is an emergency situation /or they have an infectious disease, when they arrive yes by all means let them get treated at govt expense. If they have been here over three months, they should seek private insurance like the rest of us. They have had time. If they seek govt assistance for any reason, they should be detained and turned over to ICE and deported as soon as possible. If there is an "anchor baby", new born, it goes back to the coun… Read more
@4SNPXK84yrs4Y
No and deport all immigrants to Guantanamo Bay to undergo torture to find out everything they know.
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@MerePlover12MO
California is going bankrupt. They are missing loan payments to the feds and stopped all spending in state offices. This will just hasten their collapse.
@GratefulP0llingPlace12MO
no kidding why, not just spend less money to have these people stay in their own homeland?
@MerePlover12MO
That would be better but the reason they are doing it this way is to destroy the US and guarantee one party rule in perpetuity. It’s beyond evil.
@solo-von-kickpaw3W
yay finally trump can finish the border problem I'm sick of my cousins living at our house because their school is filled with illegal immigrants and their kids can't go to school there
@Renaldo-Moon3W
Ok I guess that was kinda of stupid of me
Although once again that's one place one school. And I do think its better to give people with no where else to go to a warm place to sleep and have people who can go remote do so. Now this is a terrible execution of that and no I don't think this should happen in a school because in person learning is better
@solo-von-kickpaw3W
"this is a terrible execution" I agree if you can't handle, house, or feed all the immigrants don't bring them in. Don't bite off more than you can chew you know build the border (but) make points of entry filter the immigrants to make sure no criminals or traffickers can get thrue and because it's slower we can keep up with their needs so the resources that we give them dont get overwhelmed and common we are already billions of dollars in debt this article says it all -> "Biden admin gave 300K+ smartphones to migrants, cost over $360K a day". we… Read more
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Should illegal immigrants have access to government-subsidized healthcare?
Yes, everyone in our country should have access to single-payer healthcare
@VulcanMan61Y
Literally every modern nation on Earth has already disproved all of this with their universal healthcare systems, given that we're one of the only nations that have yet to institute this objectively superior healthcare system, despite being the wealthiest nation in history. Not only can we absolutely afford to implement a universal healthcare system, but every model proposed has been shown to save us billions in unnecessary costs every year; our current healthcare system, if we can even call it that, is one of the most expensive systems to maintain while simultaneously providing some of the worst average health outcomes in the developed world. Our system is exclusively beneficial for the wealthier and more privileged classes in society, which is fundamentally NOT a good system for public healthcare...
@ISIDEWITH1Y
Universal healthcare, or as I like to call it, government-controlled healthcare, is a giant leap towards mediocrity, due to its lack of innovation and long wait times. When the government takes control of healthcare, there's little incentive for providers to innovate and push the boundaries of medical technology. Research and development suffer as funding decisions are controlled bureaucratically. Moreover, universal healthcare often leads to frustratingly long wait lines for essential treatments and surgeries. Patients suffer and sometimes even face life-threatening situations while wai… Read more
@VulcanMan61Y
This is all purely fearmongering against a necessary public service/need. There is absolutely no basis for any of the claims you've made here beyond bad ideological postulation.
Firstly, there is no reason to even suggest that public-funding somehow provides "little incentive for providers to innovate", and what does that even mean? As long as healthcare exists, there will always be incentive to innovate, because that is how every facet of society has worked throughout all of human history. Ancient societies had been innovating new medical care and practices long before the first private medical business came along, so to assert that privatized profits is somehow the only, or even best, incentive for innovation, especially when it comes to necessary public services, is ridiculously unfounded. As long as people are in need, and the labor/resources exist to help them, there will alwaysRead more
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