Do you support removing illegal aliens from Medicaid to protect resources for American citizens?

      American citizens who worked their whole lives are waiting months for Medicaid coverage — while billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent on free healthcare for people who entered this country illegally. That is not compassion. That is an insult to every law-abiding American who plays by the rules. Our veterans, our seniors, our working families — these are the people Medicaid was designed to serve. Not people who crossed the border illegally and immediately began collecting government benefits funded by hardworking taxpayers. The United States cannot be the world's free healthcare provider. Resources are limited. When illegal aliens receive Medicaid, Americans lose access to the care they paid into the system to receive. This is basic math — and it is also basic fairness. American citizens should come first. Full stop.  ---    https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1498861548560126&set=a.638833497896273

Illegal aliens do not qualify for Medicaid unless you get your information from Confederate Flag waiving inbreeders on Facebook.    

David gets his information from Confederate Flag waiving inbreeders on Facebook.

How can you remove someone from a program that they are not in? 

You quoted a similar post from the same Facebook robot recently. 

Do you do any fact checking at all before you repost? 

How many illegal aliens are enrolled in Medicaid? 

   Six states provide Medicaid or Medicaid-like coverage (benefits similar to Medicaid but provided through a separate program) to at least some undocumented immigrant adults, and 14 states (including the six that offer coverage to adults) provide Medicaid or similar coverage to undocumented immigrant children and in some cases, pregnant women. The following states use state funds to provide Medicaid or Medicaid-like coverage to certain adults who reside in the state and meet income eligibility guidelines, regardless of their immigration status:5 California6 Starting in January 2026, undocumented immigrants age 19 and older will no longer be able to enroll, although existing enrollees will be able to keep their coverage. Starting in July 2027, undocumented immigrant adults age 19-59 who aren't pregnant will have to pay $30/month to keep their Medi-Cal coverage.7 Illinois (Only for those 65 and older). The Health Benefits for Immigrant Adults Program (HBIA) previously covered younger adults, aged 42 to 64. But coverage for that population ended on June 30, 2025.8 The Health Benefits for Immigrant Seniors (HBIS) program continues to provide coverage for those 65 and older,9 and covers almost 9,000 Illinois residents.8 But new enrollment in HBIS was paused in 2023,10 and continues to be closed.11 Minnesota Coverage is provided through MinnesotaCare,12 the state’s Basic Health Program. But new applications were no longer accepted starting June 15, 2025, and coverage for existing undocumented adults will end on December 31, 2025.13 New York (Only for those 65 and older)14 Oregon15 Washington (Enrollment cap has been met, but people can still apply to be considered if space opens in the program.)16  From Google

"Medicaid like programs"? That's not what the post said. 

The examples you gave are state funded not federal funded. 

In several of the examples you gave the program has been paused or canceled. 

Do you really believe those examples you gave amount to billions of dollars? Do you really think that citizens are being denied or delayed Medicaid because of it? 

Mrd-cal gets 50% of their funding from the feds 

I don't know where that embarrassingly crude, unrefined meme originates.  This topic is fraught with conjecture in the setting of insufficient knowledge.

Medicaid is a Federal program to provide medical care to people of very low income.  Costs are shared between Fed and states.  It is extremely complex in it's structure, to say the least.

Undocumented immigrants are generally ineligible for full Federal benefits including major welfare programs, e.g. SNAP, Medicaid, SSI, other programs.  It is designed to provide emergency care/ER care/pregnancy care in certain circumstances.  An undocumented alien may be eligible for emergency care if his symptoms are consistent with the likelihood of severe impact including death.  Some benefits may be provided for their US born children living in the household, but not the adults. 

What isn't understood here, in this meme, is that funds are not shifted from one program to another, e.g. Veterans care, seniors, SSI, etc.  It isn't like an alien crosses the border, walks into an office and is signed up for Medicaid, while a Veteran's benefits are decreased accordingly.  Doesn't work that way.

Of course, we live in a country where we take the bad with the good, as in all of life. 

That meme totally ignores, or more likely is totally oblivious of, the workings of legions of good people inside the the Fed (Trump or no Trump, please) to put policy together, amend it periodically, try as best they can to solve the problems inherent in a country like ours, confronted with tsunamis of folks with sickness who have no funds, no insurance, no means of accessing medical care other than showing up at ERs sick, don't speak the language, etc.  And the millions of providers struggling with the complexities, legal/ethical/IT of all the Fed programs, rules and regulatios, of customers/patients/the needy, eligible or ineligible for services.  Again, the bad with the good.

Candy

I am retired ER nurse.We could never in my hospital deny care.

All attempts to respond intelligently to him will do nothing. Miller gets the truth from Fakebook and repost it here. What if everyone just ignored him? He might get bored and go away.

No illegal alien (those horrid monsters!) is ever enrolled in Medicaid. Nor is any non-citizen.

Some of those folks, though do receive medical services. Millerpig says that "is not compassion.'" While I completely disagree with that evil, wretched statement and the race hatred behind it, I'd like to address the KABILLIONS OF TAXPAYER MUNNY argument--a MAGA classic.

Not providing basic medicine care to those who need it is far more expensive than refusing it. Candy certainly knows what I mean, and I suspect that Millerpig, his posting of that stupid, evil meme, knows as well.

Also...Trump has slashed Medicaid and Medicare funding. So if people are having trouble getting on the rolls, whose fault is it? Blaming FEELTHY ILLEGULS looks an awful lot like an attempt to deflect from that stark reality.