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senseandsensibility

(22,471 posts)
Tue May 27, 2025, 05:14 PM May 27

So this is kind of important

Sen Dave McCormick on Medicaid: "We want to ensure that the vulnerable people for whom this program was designed are protected and those benefits are protected, but for able-bodied working men without dependents or for illegal immigrants we want to eliminate that expense."

Now Dave and his ilk feel free to spout this nonsense because they are not called out by TV journalists. Millions believe it because they are allowed to say this with no fact checking.

Here's the truth according to Ryan Marino, MD on bluesky: "It's not possible for "illegal" immigrants to receive federal benefits like Medicaid. There are no examples of this happening; they just keep lying about it as an excuse to take healthcare away from vulnerable Americans. I don't understand why mainstream media chooses not to push back on this obvious lie."

Well, I may understand. I think mainstream media, as Dr. Marino calls them, is paid very well not to push back and instead to cast Joe Biden's age as the real scandal. And if that's not true, give me one example of a Dem politician given free rein to lie with impunity on cable news or anywhere else.

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So this is kind of important (Original Post) senseandsensibility May 27 OP
"able-bodied working men" - this is called DISCRIMINATION bucolic_frolic May 27 #1
"...or for illegal immigrants we want to eliminate that expense." J_William_Ryan May 27 #2

bucolic_frolic

(50,801 posts)
1. "able-bodied working men" - this is called DISCRIMINATION
Tue May 27, 2025, 05:18 PM
May 27

They should tax Dave McCormick to pay for it.

J_William_Ryan

(2,791 posts)
2. "...or for illegal immigrants we want to eliminate that expense."
Tue May 27, 2025, 05:32 PM
May 27

That an immigrant is undocumented doesn’t mean he’s ‘illegal.’

The lie about ‘illegal’ immigrants being eligible for Medicaid is likely predicated on emergency Medicaid for those undocumented; ‘emergency’ as in humanitarian – an undocumented immigrant being seriously injured in a car accident, for example, will receive such emergency care via Medicaid.

But such cases are extremely rare and make up a tiny fraction of a state’s Medicaid budget.

‘Illegal’ immigrants on Medicaid is more red meat for the racist right.

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