Watch: All Democratic Presidential Candidates Say They Would Give Health Insurance to Illegal Aliens
The 10 Democrat candidates
participating in Thursday night’s presidential debate were unanimous in their
response when asked to raise their hands if their government-run health care
plan would cover illegal aliens.
Every candidate on stage raised
his or her hand when asked:
“A lot of you have been talking
about government health care plans you proposed in one form or another. This is
a show of hands question and hold them up so people can see. Raise your hand if
your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.”
The 10 Democrats participating in
Thursday's debate were:
- Joe Biden,
- Rep. Eric Swalwell,
- Sen. Michael Bennet,
- Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
- Sen. Kamala Harris,
- Sen. Bernie Sanders,
- Mayor Pete Buttigieg,
- Andrew Yang,
- John Hickenlooper,
- Marianne Williamson
Free
Health Care for Illegal Aliens Could Cost American Taxpayers up to $660B a
Decade
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JOHN BINDER
28 Jun 20196,634
3:35
Providing free health care for all illegal
aliens living in the United States could cost American taxpayers an additional
$660 billion every decade in expenses.
This week, half of the 24 Democrats running for their party’s presidential nomination
confirmed that their healthcare plans would provide free health care to all
illegal aliens at the expense of American taxpayers — including former Vice
President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA),
Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Center for Immigration Studies
Director of Research Steven Camarotta told Breitbart News that only rough
estimates are available for what health care for illegal aliens will cost
American taxpayers, and though a comprehensive study has yet to be conducted on
this specific issue, taxpayers can expect to pay a “significant” amount.
“If we offered Medicaid for illegal
immigrants, it is possible the costs could be over tens of billions of
dollars,” Camarotta said. “However, it would depend on eligibility criteria as
well as how many illegal immigrants actually sign up for program once it was
offered. So while the actual costs are uncertain, the size would be significant
for taxpayers.”
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A reasonable estimate of health care
for each illegal alien, Camarotta said, is about $3,000 — about half the
average $6,600 that it currently costs annually for each Medicaid recipient.
This assumes that a number of illegal aliens already have health insurance
through employers and are afforded free health care today when they arrive to
emergency rooms.
Based on this estimate, should the
full 22 million illegal aliens be living in the U.S. that Yale University and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have estimated there to be,
providing health care for the total illegal population could cost American
taxpayers about $66 billion a year.
Over a decade, based on the Yale
estimate of the illegal population and assuming all sign up for free health
care, this would cost American taxpayers about $660 billion.
Even if there are only 11 million
illegal aliens living in the U.S., as the Pew Research Center and other
analysts routinely estimate, American taxpayers would still have to pay a
yearly bill of $33 billion a year to provide them all with free, subsidized
health care.
Should only half of the illegal
population get health care, it would cost American taxpayers about $16.5
billion a year — almost the price of what it currently costs taxpayers to
provide subsidized health care to illegal aliens.
Today, Americans are forced to
subsidize about $18.5 billion worth of
yearly medical costs for illegal aliens living in the U.S., according to
estimates by Chris Conover, formerly of the Center for Health Policy and
Inequalities Research at Duke University.
Nearly every Democrat running for
their party’s presidential nomination has endorsed having American taxpayers
pay for free health care for illegal aliens. Those who have endorsed the plan
include Biden, Sanders, Gillibrand, Buttigieg, and Harris, along with Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), former Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Julian Castro, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), Sen. Michael
Bennet (D-CO), author Marianne Williamson, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA),
entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO).
California’s $215
Billion Budget Includes Health Care for Illegal Aliens
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KATHERINE RODRIGUEZ
29 Jun 2019109
1:42
California’s Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom
signed a $215 billion budget on Thursday, which includes taxpayer-funded health
care for illegal aliens.
Newsom signed the massive $214.8 billion
funding bill into law, which includes a provision that would expand health care
for people who are illegally in the U.S. and penalizes people who do not
purchase health insurance, the Los
Angeles Times reported.
The California Democrat had proposed expanding
health care for illegal aliens long before he took office.
In an August 2018 interview, Newsom
said he would use an executive order to give universal health care to those
residing in the U.S. illegally. Once Newsom took office in January, he proposed expanding
Medi-Cal, the state version of Medicaid, to illegal aliens up to 26 years old.
The plan sailed through
California’s Democrat-controlled legislature, although there were concerns over
how much money the state should provide for expanding Medi-Cal for low-income
illegal aliens.
Newsom proposed that $98 million in the budget should go to
expanding taxpayer-funded health care for illegal aliens between 19 and 25
years old, but one state Assembly bill proposed setting aside $3.4 billion to
cover all illegal aliens over 19 years old.
The bill is Newsom’s first budget since he took office in January,
largely helped along by a $21.5 billion surplus carrying over from his
fellow Democrat, former Gov. Jerry Brown’s, administration.
Report: States Face $1 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities
States are facing more than $1 trillion in unfunded future liabilities related to health and life insurance benefits for their retired employees, a growing shortfall that amounts to about $3,100 for every person in the United States, according to a new report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).
ALEC, which has come under attack by left-wing advocacy groups in recent years, describes itself as “the nation’s largest nonpartisan, voluntary membership organization of state legislators, with more than 2,000 members across the nation.”
Its mission is “to discuss, develop, and disseminate model public policies that expand free markets, promote economic growth, limit the size of government, and preserve individual liberty.”
The new study, the latest in an annual series from ALEC’s Center for State Fiscal Reform, comes after critics have complained for years that cash-strapped states don’t adequately fund their retiree-related obligations, which has allowed those sums to accumulate.
Its authors say that, “in the end, government must be held accountable for its actions.” Without policy changes, these liabilities could lead to future tax increases or force cuts to core public services in states.
Making governments use “more prudent actuarial assumptions and increasing transparency prevents state governments from making impossible promises and allowing unfunded liabilities to accumulate,” the report states.
These unfunded benefit programs for retired public employees fall under a category that fiscal analysts call “other post-employment benefits,” or OPEB. OPEB excludes public pension plans but includes benefits to retired workers such as health insurance, life insurance, supplemental Medicare insurance, and more. The study examined 132 OPEB plans from fiscal 2013 to 2017, drawing on the most current Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports (CAFRs) and Actuarial Valuation Reports.
“While a trillion dollars is a rounding error in Washington, D.C., at the state level, it’s a huge threat to government programs and taxpayers,” Jonathan Williams, chief economist and executive vice president of policy at ALEC, told The Epoch Times in an interview.
“Governments, if they want to spend more money on new programs, need to view OPEB liabilities as a threat, so I think there is something for both parties to like from tackling these liabilities.”
Public pensions have generally been prefunded at 80 percent in order to be considered healthy, “but now a lot of us are thinking 100 percent is better.” OPEB items, by contrast, have generally not been prefunded at all, he said.
“OPEB liabilities have flown under the radar, but they have become more visible as a result of federal accounting rule changes that force states to list them on their balance sheets,” Williams said. Even so, they have been “overshadowed” by fiscal problems in Detroit and Puerto Rico.
“Unfortunately, this new transparency has left us with these very huge liabilities,” he said.
The states with the largest OPEB liabilities are California ($166.6 billion), New Jersey ($130.4 billion), New York ($129.3 billion), Texas ($115.7 billion), and Illinois ($64.4 billion), according to the study. The states with the smallest OPEB liabilities are Nebraska and South Dakota, which Williams said are tied at zero because they don’t pay for retired employees’ health care, followed by Kansas ($285,000), Oklahoma ($9.1 million), and Utah ($210.9 million).
“There is a lot of doom and gloom in the report,” but there are also a handful of states that are doing a good job getting a handle on their OPEB liabilities, Williams said.
American horror
story
Leaving the Democrats
I
was brought up a military brat. My father did 22 years in the United
States Air Force. In 1954 when he joined, they promised if he made a
career of it, he and his wife, my mother, would be taken care of for life.
He got out in 1976 after extending his service a couple of extra
years so I would not have to switch high schools in Florida.
We
moved out west after my father retired and I finished high school. In
1978, I got a job in the wood products industry at a particleboard factory and
began work a schedule that just became normal to me. seven days on, two days
off, working nights, weekends, and most holidays. I wore “save the
whales” t-shirts at work.
The
industry came under attack because of environmental concerns for the spotted
owl. The lumber and wood products industry in the West was decimated over
the next 15-20 years. We tried to muster support from our government, but
our efforts fell on deaf ears. Eventually after 22 years, the facility I
worked at closed. The ability to do what we did, which was to recycle
sawdust and discarded wood into a usable product, became too expensive as we
had to go further and further away for our raw materials. The logging
industry was gone because of environmentalism and government policies to put
animal concerns ahead of humans.
The
spotted owl (the Mexican spotted owl in the southwest) was noted later on to
be mating with other ‘species’ of owls.
It
occurred to me if they can call an owl of a different color another species,
then this should be applied to humans. By a definition of species, we are
all our own species based on external color, size and shape, etc.. Why
were we not being looked after by our government in our lives? We paid
taxes and worked our butts off, only to be told we were killing the planet.
Where was the Human Protective Agency? Why was I paying taxes to have the
government pay bureaucrats to work against me?
In
the 90s, I watched the Clintons. Bill at that time seemed to be a pragmatist
but Hillary, the unelected first lady, tried to take over the healthcare
system. I saw it as a blatant power grab by an overly ambitious person in
government. By this time, we were well into the spotted owl era, and my
distaste for the government sticking its nose into our lives was huge. My
save the whales t-shirts were history long before this.
Now,
my parents were Roosevelt Democrats who fed on the nightly news:
Huntley-Brinkley, Walter Cronkite. That was the source for news. In
their minds, republicans were the evil ones trying to take away their VA
benefits promised to them in the 50’s. They believed the nightly news.
There was no internet, no counterpoint. When I reached adulthood,
we argued over politics a lot more than we should have. My Mother
actually believed the SPLC was a conservative organization. We believed
the same things really as she espoused conservative positions, but she thought
the Democrats had her back on it all. I swore to my mother I would never
vote for a party that would put a damn bird above a human.
It
has only gotten worse.
After
securing a job at a hospital, I watched ObamaCare tear through healthcare and
then almost immediately watched as our pension benefits were frozen as a result
of having to comply with new rules and regulations. My wife and I lost
3000 dollars a month in future retirement income as a result of her company
having to reorganize, and my pension is a private plan. Not a single Republican
voted for the ObamaCare scam. But hey, 70 million dollars later the hospital has EPIC.
My Chart anyone? I understand the CEO of that company has a lot of ties to Obama.
Hospitals
now have departments of people working just to make sure all of the I’s are
dotted and T’s crossed and the punctuation is correct just so we get paid for
taking care of those on Medicare and Medicaid. I can imagine on the other
end that the government bureaucracy has people just looking for mistakes and
ways not to pay out. It is really mindboggling.
I
watched my father get piss-poor treatment at the VA hospital, waiting months to
get appointments and then just handed more drugs. He struggled with
issues from Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam. He had back surgery there
without any physical therapy follow-up. He could not straighten out his
back to lie down or stand up straight after the surgery. He died in
2011 after having to live and sleep in his easy chair for years due to the
pain. I want to say he was taken care of for life as promised years before
without sounding sarcastic. But I can’t.
I
watched as my mother walked away from the Democrats. She quoted Reagan….
they left her. She voted for President Trump.
I
never went to college, I am totally self-taught. I am a doer of many
trades and master of none. I have had a great life in the greatest
country on earth. All along the way, the Democrats have stepped on me,
taxed me more, lied to me, called me names, and demand I give up my rights.
Democrats were the ones pushing environmental causes at the expense of
humans and government takeover of healthcare. They have mismanaged
everything they get their hands on, and then blame others for their own
deeds. I watch them lie and cheat and twist words. Democrats have
alienated their own base to the point they have to argue for foreigners to come
into this country illegally in order to vote for Democrats, mainly by calling
those of us opposed to this "racist."
In
all fairness, the weak Republicans in our government have hardly stood in their
way. But that is another day, another rant.
I
am now called racist, homophobic, misogynist, and Islamaphobic. A
gun-toting, Bible-believing bitter clinger. A deplorable. A white
nationalist. Nazi. I can’t remember all of my Democrat party subtitles.
But
I am middle class. I have been given nothing by our government and have given
too much to it. And it always wants more, telling me I have to pay my
fair share. It is a sad state when you get to a point in life of maximum
dollars earned that it is taken away by higher tax brackets and the loss of
deductions.
I
will never vote for anyone advocating for more government control. Or for
anyone who is trying to denigrate me by name-calling or label-making. The
reason is my life.
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