It’s Lunacy to Give ‘Free’ Health Insurance to Illegal Aliens

Throughout the globe, tens of millions of individuals are on the transfer, defying borders and violating legal guidelines to flee poor nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and break into wealthy nations. The US is their No. 1 vacation spot.

The U.S. wants a technique to restrict the burden on People and defend our high quality of life. As a substitute, the Democratic Occasion merely advantage alerts, saying, “Welcome, take no matter we now have.”

As of Jan. 1, California beneath Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, is providing Medi-Cal to roughly 760,000 undocumented migrants of all ages.

California’s well being care system is already strained, with lengthy emergency room wait occasions and a dire nurse scarcity. A scarcity of beds and psychological well being services prevents municipalities from transferring the hundreds of drug-addicted homeless individuals off the streets and into remedy. The state faces a staggering $68 billion deficit.

But the Left opts to spend cash on migrants as an alternative of on California’s personal, displaying utter disregard for the well being care of native residents.

The California Republican Occasion warns that including 760,000 undocumented individuals to the state’s medical insurance rolls will exacerbate “entry issues.” Briefly, Californians will wait longer and accept much less care.

Don’t assume this lunacy is restricted to 1 state. Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Illinois, Washington state, and Massachusetts already cowl migrants in particular age classes, and left-wing lawmakers are pushing to broaden the protection to all ages. New York lawmakers got here shut in June, however ended the legislative time period with out passing it.

In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to present migrants taxpayer-funded well being protection. It’s a knife at the back of hardworking People who battle to pay medical payments. It would additionally doom this nation to a unending flood of strangers in search of authorities handouts.

Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled Legislature has gone off the deep finish, providing “Child Bonds,” or taxpayer-funded financial savings accounts, for each little one—together with youngsters of migrants within the nation illegally —whose start is roofed by the state’s HUSKY public insurance coverage program, even when their migrant mother and father arrived simply days earlier than the start. Nest eggs courtesy of the taxpayer, for the categorical goal of “closing the wealth hole.”

The Democratic Occasion’s zeal to offer migrants with free medical insurance is excessive, in contrast with what is happening across the globe, even in socialist-leaning nations.

In June, the Biden administration made the U.S. one in every of just a few First World nations to signal on to the Rabat Declaration, sponsored by the United Nations, which declares that every one migrants ought to have entry to a rustic’s nationwide medical insurance packages. Canada, the UK, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and several other different European nations that obtain massive numbers of migrants didn’t signal.

Even socialist nations corresponding to Norway are strictly limiting migrants to emergency care solely, no complete medical insurance. French President Emmanuel Macron’s authorities is reassessing whether or not it could actually present well being advantages to migrants.

These nations see what the Democratic Occasion within the U.S. refuses to confess: that free well being care is a magnet.

Opposite to Vice President Kamala Harris’ blather, the flood of migrants throughout the southern border is just not as a consequence of “root causes” america can ameliorate with diplomacy and overseas support.

It’s a worldwide phenomenon. Many European and Scandinavian nations are adjusting their insurance policies to guard their very own residents from undue burdens. The U.S. is solely surrendering.

Providing medical insurance additionally invitations an inflow of sick individuals from nations that can’t present care. Venezuela’s well being care system has collapsed. Hospitals there lack 80% to 90% of important medicines, a state of affairs that’s pushing the sick and their households to flee.

Neighboring Brazil is reporting the reappearance of communicable infections corresponding to tuberculosis, hepatitis A, whooping cough, diphtheria, and measles due to the inflow of Venezuelans needing care. Count on comparable issues within the U.S.

Open borders, free meals and resort rooms, and guarantees of free well being protection produce predictable outcomes. Migration throughout the U.S. southern border set one more file in December.

As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., commented on Newsom’s well being coverage, “Nothing is free, the California taxpayers should pay for it.”

She added: “It’s treason. No different technique to say it.”

At least, it’s a betrayal.

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