Thread: Amnesty Means Massive Medicaid Costs

Amnesty Means Massive Medicaid Costs
by James R. Edwards, Jr.

08/16/2010

If Congress pushes through amnesty, hold onto your wallets. Taxpayers will get robbed and illegal aliens rewarded.

The 11 million illegal aliens who get legalized will then qualify for many taxpayer-funded government programs, including health premium subsidies, the Earned Income Tax Credit and Medicaid. This redistribution of wealth will add billions to the government’s red ink—not to mention deprive productive Americans of their own money.

To get a handle on the size of amnesty’s fiscal consequences, consider the impact on a single program: Medicaid.

Medicaid is an entitlement program, meaning if someone meets the eligibility criteria, then benefits must be provided. This is a welfare program, meaning eligibility is based on low income.

It is guaranteed benefit, meaning there’s no per-beneficiary cap to cause self-restraint. It’s also federal-state, meaning taxpayers get hit twice—paying both state and federal taxes—and states can’t easily buck federal Medicaid mandates. Medicaid has become one of the biggest unfunded liabilities and out-of-control cost drivers saddling state budgets.

Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security are the greatest causes of our runaway federal spending. These entitlement programs gobble up about one-tenth of GDP and are expected to double that by 2055.

This “mandatoryâ€

The number is far more then 11 million

If they ram it through

All bets are off

just look at the problems its already costing American taxpayers with hospitals closing all together or reducing staff, or the services they provide.
Almost 100 hospitals have closed in the american southwest because of this

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Originally Posted by Justthefacts

The number is far more then 11 million

If they ram it through

All bets are off

That doesn't include the ones that are popping out babies are ALREADY getting those benefits!

THE POLITICIANS MUST NOT TALK ABOUT AMNESTY. AMERICANS DO NOT SUPPORT AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS. ALL ILLEGALS MUST BE DEPORTED NOW. AMERICANS RUN THIS COUNTRY. THE POLITICIANS DO NOT. THEREFORE, JUST ENFORCE THE LAWS AND DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS NOW.