Presidential candidate Joe Biden wants American taxpayers to pay for illegal-alien healthcare. Indeed, he doesn’t just want us to pay for their healthcare, he says we are obliged to pay for their healthcare.
That’s likely because Biden thinks illegals are American citizens, and doesn’t much care how many are here as long as they vote the right way.
What Biden didn’t explain when he said we must pay for illegal-alien healthcare is how much such beneficence would cost.
Answer: A lot.
The Question, The Answer
Biden’s demand that we pay for illegal-alien healthcare answered a question he got on Wednesday in Los Angeles from a reporter who wanted to know whether the “undocumented” deserve a free ride.
The question was this: “Do you think that undocumented immigrants who are in this country and are law-abiding should be entitled to federal benefits like Medicare, Medicaid for example?”
Answered Biden, “Look, I think that anyone who is in a situation where they are in need of health care, regardless of whether they are documented or undocumented, we have an obligation to see that they are cared for. That’s why I think we need more clinics in this country.”
Biden forgot to put “free” before clinics, but anyway, the candidate then suggested that Americans who disagree likely have a nasty hang-up about the border-jumping illegals who lie with the facility of Pinocchio when they apply for “asylum.”
“A significant portion of undocumented folks in this country are there because they overstayed their visas,” he continued. “It’s not a lot of people breaking down gates coming across the border,” he falsely averred.
Then came the inevitable. “We” need to watch what we say about all those “undocumented folks.”
“The biggest thing we’ve got to do is tone down the rhetoric,” he continued, because that “creates fear and concern” and ends in describing “undocumented folks” in “graphic, unflattering terms.”
Biden thinks those “undocumented folks” are citizens, as Breitbart noted in its report on his generosity with other people’s money.
In 2014, Biden told the worthies of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that entering the country illegally isn’t a problem, and Teddy Roosevelt would agree.
“The 11 million people living in the shadows, I believe they’re already American citizens,” Biden said. “Teddy Roosevelt said it better, he said Americanism is not a question of birthplace or creed or a line of dissent. It’s a question of principles, idealism, and character.”
Illegals “are just waiting, waiting for a chance to be able to contribute fully. And by that standard, 11 million undocumented aliens are already American.”
Roosevelt also said that “the one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities,” but that inconvenient truth aside, Biden likely doesn’t grasp just what his munificence — again, with our money — will cost.
The Cost of Illegal-Alien Healthcare
Biden is right that visa overstays are a big problem: 701,900 in 2018, the government reported. But at least those who overstay actually entered the country legally; border jumpers don’t.
But that’s beside the point.
The real problem is the cost of the healthcare, which Forbes magazine estimated to be $18.5 billion, $11.2 billion of it federal tax dollars.
In 2017, the Federation for American Immigration Reform reported a figure of $29.3 billion; $17.1 in federal tax dollars, and $12.2 billion in state tax dollars. More than $15 billion on that total was uncompensated medical care. The rest fell under Medicaid births, Medicaid fraud, Medicaid for illegal-alien children, and improper Medicaid payouts.
The bills for the more than half-million illegals who have crossed the border since the beginning of fiscal 2019 in October are already rolling in.
Speaking at a news conference in March, Brian Hastings, operations chief for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said about 55 illegals per day need medical care, and that 31,000 illegals will need medical care this year, up from 12,000 last year. Since December 22, he said, sick illegals have forced agents to spend 57,000 hours at hospitals or medical facilities. Cost: $2.2 milllion in salaries. Between 25 percent and 40 percent of the border agency’s manpower goes to the care and maintenance of illegals, he said.
CBP spent $98 million on illegal-alien healthcare between 2014 and 2018.
Hastings spoke before more than 200,000 illegals crossed the border in March and April.
If he thinks illegal should have free health care, then and his multi millionaire senators and congressman should donate their fortunes.
Maybe if they lived in a moderate home, like most if us, they would come to see some logistical issues that actually could help legal Americans, especially our Veterans and active military.
Keep voting Democrat! They give them food stamps and housing too ! While American citizens sleep on the streets,
Tighter U.S. border security, including The Wall that President Trump wants, and the proper technological controls in place would’ve prevented many of the problems which Joe Biden was discussing with reporters in the above article. So would having respect for U.S. sovereignty and our immigration laws which illegal aliens are sadly lacking. As for the 11+ million undocumented illegals in our country that Biden alluded to, that’s very likely a low number. Some estimates put undocumented illegals at around 18 to 20 million which is probably closer to the truth, but you’ll never hear this from the MSM. Nor will the liberal media pundits bring up the fact that 40 percent of our illegal immigration problem is “visa overstays.” When was the last time you heard this being talked about on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, or NBC News? Anyone? Liberal progressives in the Democratic Party are unwilling to admit that our government has failed miserably to secure our Southern Border with Mexico; or that there is even a humanitarian crisis of the government’s own making. Their accomplices in the media are just as dishonest, if not simply disingenuous. Joe Biden is really no different than the rest of his ilk.
Wake up America; nothing is free.
I copied the following from the NY State Attorney general’s web page :
“In New York State, in order to register and vote, you must be:
a United States citizen;
eighteen (18) years of age or older on Election Day or not later than December 31st of the calendar year in which you register; and
a resident of New York State and of the county, city or village where you will be voting for a minimum of 30 days before the election.
(Those who do not meet the thirty (30) day residency requirement, but meet all remaining criteria, will be permitted to vote by special ballot for president and vice-president.) ”
California also has the same requirements.
So I understant some states may let illegals to vote , but if the 2 most communist states say you have to be a citizen to vote, lets make people show proof of citizenship at the polls. What is so hard to do this!
I think if this was enforced the dopey dems wouldn’t push so hard for illegal’s rights as they do at present.
Even though there are 4 to five requirements to vote , it seems the dems only require you be breathing to vote , thats why they pander to that community .
It seems most everyone who has posted a comment here are on the same page. How can the people in this country that support these mud slinging politicians on the left, not realize the destructive path they want to lead the country down.
I so much appreciate President Trump and his efforts to get the job done. Is he not as ” Presidential ” as some would like him to be , is he a little rough around the edges , sure , however he is exactly the President the country needs. If he would receive just a little help from the republicans ,his efforts would skyrocket.
God help the USA if Mr Trump isn’t reelected in 2020
We need a grand jury to investigate his sexual misdeeds and his corruption (using his office to bully Ukraine into overlooking the financial deals of his son, Hunter). Republicans must have courage to demand this and get the information out to voters. ‘Uncle Joe’ is just another funny uncle who takes advantage of women and girls, as well as lying and cheating. He does not deserve to be president.
Texans pay over $5 Billion a year for health care for illegals. That leaves a lot of low-income Texans and their children “unqualified” for Medicaid and CHIP benefits because the income limit is so incredibly low because there isn’t enough money for them. How about we change our priorities and put illegals at the end of the line instead of the front? They are not the most important people in this country: Americans and law-abiding immigrants are.
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.” Teddy Roosevelt
Tell him to get it from the Clinton Foundation and leave our HARD EARNED SS to heck alone!!
If someone broke into my house, would I give him free food, shelter, access to my healthcare and some dollars on a regular basis?
No.
I’d shoot him for breaking and entering.
So let’s all stop paying taxes until they start deporting all the illegals and make the legal ones pay taxes. We can’t afford all the illegals. What happened to the wall? Did Trump give up on it? I pay $378 a month in insurance for me alone and have a $3500 deductible plus another $4000 co-pay per year. If I got anything better it would be over $650 a month. Will the illegals have to pay premiums? My income is less than $2000 per month. Illegals get about $4000 month. Maybe I should change my name to Gonzalez, go to Mexico and try to come back without my passport. Then I’d be better off financially. Thanks to Biden and all the democrats we are getting poorer by the day. I won’t get a pay raise for 3 years from my pension. So with the insurance going up $60 per month every year I’ve lost money for the last 8 years. Pretty soon I’ll be on Medicaid because I won’t have any income.
I hear the prison system has great benefits. Does one have to commit a crime to gain entry?
I am a US Army Vietnam Era veteran, age 76. I applied for VA Medical Benefits in August of 2018 knowing that I would be losing my private health insurance in October 2018. Now I get a letter from the VA that I am not eligible for VA healthcare benefits because my wife and I made more than $33,000 together in 2017. Not 2018 but 2017 even though I did not apply until after the middle of 2018. AND, although we are both retired and living off our savings and social security and our income levels are significantly reduced, the VA will not honor my appeal for benefits. SO, Biden and the other demoncrats running for president want to buy the illegal alien vote by promising them free medical treatment. What they really need to do is take care of the thousands of military veterans who served this country and risked their lives to keep it free. It’s time for the federal government to step up and provide for it’s Freedom Fighters and let the illegals fend for themselves.
Send them Back
Do you think the radical dems even care about the illegals or are they just wanting to sign them up for citizenship so they will vote for them!
I think this invasion continues until Congress acts. Since that won’t happen, we must close the border which in turn will get Congress moving. PLEASE CLOSE THE BORDER NOW!!!!!!
I am just fed up with the bleeding heart left-liberals. Let’s take care of our own natural Bird Citizens first. My son was just diagnosed with Parkinson’s Syndrome he cannot even get good Physicians to see him for the latest developments. 46 and cannot work, what is he to-do. Are we going to give more to immigrants? I am not for any healthcare there country of origin should be re the’ost
I think Illegal aliens should get some free stuff. Such as free one-way bus fare or train fare to the border, along with directions to the nearest health care clinic on the other side of the border.
A typical liberal mind set ; pathetic.
Isn’t that special? The least charitable man in government (the exceedingly tight Joe Biden) is willing to give our tax dollars to illegals.
No you idiot!! All of you Demon-crates want to take care of (aka bride) the rest of the world but could care less about your fellow countrymen!! I am so tired of this, if you dumb-asses hate this country so much, move to a better one. But that will be a bit hard to do …. because there is no better country!! Help begins AT HOME! So tired of this …………..
The Demoncrats are stumbling over each other to see which one can promise the most free stuff to the most people. It’s not enough to offer free stuff to Americans. They now have to offer free stuff (like free citizenship and healthcare) to illegals. Next thing will be offering free transportation to bring them here from wherever (and signing them up to vote on the way).
Isn’t it funny how federal employees they get free healthcare want to pay for The illegals healthcare. But our veterans can’t get quick healthcare decent healthcare because there’s no funding what is wrong with this country
Sick groping Joe!
That’s wonderful, everyone who agrees with you should begin privately funding that immediately. I sincerely hope Mr Biden arranges many photo ops with the wives and girlfriends of MS-13 members
He’s an idiot. Let’s give seniors free health Care and send illegals back to where they came from.
If any free health care is given, give it to veterans, law enforcement, fire fighters, first responder’s! Why was Biden not asked that?
Jobama is just another marxist!! The left wing fascist have forgotten the definition of the word illegal!!
Beavis Biden should team up with Buttigieg…
Beavis Biden…
Every day the libs stunts provide more proof of their intended overthrow of our constitutional republic. How far does this have to go?
Pandering politicians such as “Shotgun Joe” Biden should be forced to replace the word “free” with the term “taxpayer-funded,” as there are too many Americans who either fail to understand that there is no such thing as “free,” or they care not who pays for their free stuff. Biden and many of his ilk are globalists for whom open borders and unbridled illegal immigration are part of the plan for creation of a New World Order or One World Government. Nearly every US President from Woodrow Wilson through Barry Soetoro, AKA, Barack Obama, referred favorably to a “New World Order.” Trump, however, is a declared nationalist who is fighting an uphill battle against the globalists; many of whom are members of his own party.
Sad old Perv… Represents everything the swamp holds sacred.. Hope all the Democratic candidates eat each other like the nest of snakes they are…
And what about Americans on low income and the homeless? Oh they can go jump as far as Biden is concerned. By the way, Ole’ groping Joe wouldn’t be so generous if illegals were going to vote republican!
Biden is a New World Order John Kennedy socialist. He is also the poster child for, ” Tenure does not a competent politician make”. He is as corrupt as hell and his little hook line, ” not even a hint of corruption” is as hypocritical as he could possibly be. Biden is just a life long member of the D.C. political swamp that has sucked the breath out of Delaware and America’s taxpayers. Ukraine money, Chinese money and a co-conspirator in the Russia Election coup and certainly a co-conspirator in the Russian deal with the Clintons. He is Dirty!
And why do they get FREE healthcare when I cannot get it for myself? Why are they so much better taken care of than I am? I have paid and paid and paid over the years for taxes, healthcare, schooling and did I get help? NO, I had to pay for my own insurance, schooling, and have had to pay taxes to help those on WELFARE, and now for illegals too and it looks like they are living higher on the hog than I was ever able to do myself. I am on a limited income, I am retired, I worked for my pension which is not a whole lot. That is how it is, how can I get more and get my medical bills and prescriptions all all paid for, food paid for and have plenty left over to enjoy life? Can’t be done with my retirement income and social security that I worked for all those long years. What is fair in life? By the way, wouldn’t it be cheaper to ship those illegals back where they came from rather than paying them so highly to stay here and every now and then have some of them kill one of our good law abiding people?
Joe Biden is and always has been a crook. He made his “bones” in the “not-so-great state of Delaware,” where political astuteness is a lost cause. On his last run for President, he was skewered and trash-binned for plagiarizing with reckless abandon. Since then he has sharpened his skills with criminal deals with foreign governments on behalf of paving the path of gold for his son Hunter, and a ho-him turn as Vice President and Chief Slanderer under the worthless socialist anti-American Barack Hussein Obama. This is the last person America should be considering as our President. As he put it in anther racially-charged context: ‘He gonna put us all in chains!’
While I am grateful that he did not receive the “Kavanaugh” treatment when women accused him of misconduct, I still believe he is untrustworthy. We observed, in the way he corruptly manipulated the law in Ukraine and the US, he seems to think he is above any law. He will promise anything to get in control of voters.
Biden is a DEMOCRAP. That particular political party has been overrun by the NWO globalists that are hell bent on the destruction of the American way of life. Their garbage is now at the State and local levels.
Biden is a senile washed up hack and that’s the best Democrats got, Biden thinks illegal aliens are ok because he’s half dead now and don’t have to worry about the future, Sorry Joe your not gonna be president, 6 more years for president Trump!??
“Smokin joe”is having a big problem passing gas upwind and becoming more”brain impaired”than he usually is.But this person is only one of many that are crawling out from under rocks and doing the same thing.
it is insane that the discussion would ever even be had, as to whether the U.S. taxpayer ought to foot the bill for healthcare expenses for illegal aliens.
So many illegals… so many (d) votes!
Biden and the rest of the GimmeDats want the illegals to think they will get everything they want or need if they will just vote Democrat . Joe Biden doesn’t know what it means to work at a job and pay taxes. He has been a leach his whole life. It’s true. This BS is about our freedom and bringing the United States down to a communist society. The late term abortions are exactly like China’s selective child birth program. When the Democrats make their move, they will decide who lives and who dies. The reason they want to give all these services to people is so they can control them. You do exactly what they want or you don’t or will not exists. I’m afraid we are in for some perilous times. Democrats are too. I don’t think Americans will sit back and watch it happen. If not for themselves, their children , grandchildren and others to come. America IS Great. Let’s keep it that way.
If the democrats get the presidency then I’ll give up my citizenship and move to Costa Rica. I’m not obligated to pay for anyone other than myself. My feelings are if you can’t come legal then go to hell!
Mr Biden, If you are in favor of free healthcare then I suggest that you Democrats and other Politications that think like this should really pay for them out your own penision plans. We the People are sick and tried of hearing that we the taxpayers should have to pay their healthcare. These Illegal Immagrants are not entitled to anything free from us, Just in case you forget they are breaking our laws and since y’all need their vote to win election s you should pay for their Freebies not us.
You are an idiot we owe you or illegals a dam thing they are not our responsibility send back to their own countries the only ones that are Entitled to any of our programs are those who have worked at least 20 years and paid into these programs, no illegal, muslums, refugees, are entitled to a dam thing here in America
I will state again, as I have to so many that know me. There is a right way and a wrong way to be in this country. If in doubt, I am referring to the United States of America.
I firmly believe that our borders should be closed and protected from illegal entry by anyone that it not within our borders legally. We remain one of the very few countries on the face of the Earth were illegal entry is so easy and so well supported by some very leftist groups that seem to wield very substantial political power, wrongfully spent. It should not be for the legal citizens of our great nation to support and maintain anyone here on less than a fully legal status.
Our tax dollars should be directed at resolving our own internal problems and difficulties, that we have so many of in these days and times. Not directed, misguidedly so, to other nations to resolve their own internal and international problems at our expense. As is proven by decades of history, never to be repaid, as the debt that it is.
We need to look out for our own great nation, as the rest of the world, will only take advantage of it, as they obviously can.
JOE SCHMOEE – CAN’T FIX STUPID! AND ALL THESE DUMOS ARE JUST THAT
Biden is showing himself to be the true biased, liberal, socialist that he is. He tried to fool us with his middle of the road act, but that cat is out of the bag. Trump in a landslide victory to MAGA.