Trump Signs Proclamation Requiring Immigrants to Have Health
Care Before Visas Are Approved
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As it currently stands, hospitals treat everyone, including
those who are uninsured. Hospitals continually foot the bill and are out
millions of dollars per year to those who seek services without any kind of
insurance. On top of that, the uninsured flock to hospitals to treat minor
illnesses, like colds and allergies, which otherwise would be dealt with at a
primary care physician's office, creating a burden on emergency rooms. Even
though the federal government reimburses hospitals for a portion of services
rendered, hospitals are still out the difference.
When the uninsured continually seek treatment at hospitals,
taxes go up so the government can continue to reimburse hospitals the small
percentage it does.
According to Trump, the feds can make an impact on this problem by requiring
immigrants to have health insurance before visiting the United States.
"While our healthcare system grapples with the challenges
caused by uncompensated care, the United States Government is making the
problem worse by admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any
ability to pay for their healthcare costs," the proclamation reads.
"Notably, data show that lawful immigrants are about three times more
likely than United States citizens to lack health insurance. Immigrants who
enter this country should not further saddle our healthcare system, and
subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs."
"The United States has a long history of welcoming
immigrants who come lawfully in search of brighter futures. We must continue
that tradition while also addressing the challenges facing our healthcare
system, including protecting both it and the American taxpayer from the burdens
of uncompensated care. Continuing to allow entry into the United States of
certain immigrants who lack health insurance or the demonstrated ability to pay
for their healthcare would be detrimental to these interests," the
proclamation states.
The
required insurance requirement can be met with an employer-provided or
individually purchased pIan. Catastrophic or short-term coverage is allowed.
The immigrant is allowed to obtain insurance through Obamacare but he or she
will not qualify for government subsidies.
“Every one of these plans involves rationing care, restricting access, denying coverage, slashing quality, and massively raising taxes. They want to raise your taxes. They also want to have open borders so the people can just come in and do whatever they want to do, and they have no idea who’s coming in by the way,” Trump said.
“Congressional Democrats’ extreme agenda would destroy our booming economy very quickly. One of the most disturbing proposals from left-wing politicians involves draining your health care to finance the open borders that we just discussed. That’s how they want to finance it,” he said.
Los Angeles County Pays
Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
Leaving
California to the Homeless
Self-Destruction in the Golden State
Trump: Dems Want to Drain Americans’ Health Care to Finance Open Borders
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(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump said Thursday that Democrats want to drain the health care of Americans and finance health care for illegal immigrants.
Democrats want to “raid Medicare to fund a thing called socialism” with proposals for single-payer health care, also known as the public option, the president said during a speech at The Villages, Fla.
Democrats want to “raid Medicare to fund a thing called socialism” with proposals for single-payer health care, also known as the public option, the president said during a speech at The Villages, Fla.
“Every one of these plans involves rationing care, restricting access, denying coverage, slashing quality, and massively raising taxes. They want to raise your taxes. They also want to have open borders so the people can just come in and do whatever they want to do, and they have no idea who’s coming in by the way,” Trump said.
“Congressional Democrats’ extreme agenda would destroy our booming economy very quickly. One of the most disturbing proposals from left-wing politicians involves draining your health care to finance the open borders that we just discussed. That’s how they want to finance it,” he said.
“Leading Democrats have pledged to give free health care to illegal immigrants. They put foreign citizens who break our laws and endanger our country. They put them way ahead of American citizens like you who obey our laws. I will never allow these politicians to steal your health care and give it away to illegal aliens,” the president pledged.
“And now in New York, I hear they passed a new regulation that if you use the word illegal immigrant – did I hear correctly? They want to charge you a fine of $250,000, in other words, sell your home in The Villages ‘cause you happen to say we don’t like illegal immigrants pouring into our country illegally. We want people to come into our country legally through a process, and we’re all in favor of that,” he said.
“And by the way, the fake news will cut the last part of the sentence off. They’ll just put the first part, and they’ll say man, is he rough! He’s too tough. I can’t vote for him. A nation must put his own citizens first. My administration is standing up for American seniors, and we’ll always protect the Medicare benefits you earned and paid for,” the president said.
He accused Democrats of slashing Medicare by $800 billion during the Obama administration to pay for Obamacare.
“Now one of their new proposals backed by more than 130 Democrat members of Congress would cost … $33 trillion – and that’s on the low side … and reduce Americans’ household income by $17,000 per year,” he said.
The president signed an executive order at the event Thursday to protect Medicare and improve its fiscal sustainability.
According to the White House, the executive order is designed to empower patients with more plan choices, access to telehealth and new therapies, and allow them to have more time with doctors. It is expected to maximize freedom for Medicare patients and providers by reducing regulatory burdens and eliminating unnecessary barriers.
It will also streamline approval of therapies, while reducing obstacles to improved patient care; improve quality by implementing reforms that better link payment to value; and protect beneficiaries by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.
“The proposed Medicare for All Act of 2019, as introduced in the Senate ("Medicare for All") would destroy our current Medicare program, which enables our Nation's seniors and other vulnerable Americans to receive affordable, high-quality care from providers of their choice. Rather than upend Medicare as we know it, my Administration will protect and improve it,” the executive order stated.
The executive order directs the HHS secretary, within one year, to propose “a regulation and implement other administrative actions to enable the Medicare program to provide beneficiaries with more diverse and affordable plan choices.”
It also directs the secretary to submit to the president within 180 days a report that identifies approaches to modify Medicare fee-for-service (Medicare FFS) payments “to more closely reflect the prices paid for services” in Medicare Advantage and the commercial insurance market, “to encourage more robust price competition, and otherwise to inject market pricing into Medicare FFS reimbursement.”
The secretary is also directed to, within one year of the executive order’s signing, “propose regulatory and sub-regulatory changes to the Medicare program to encourage innovation for patients” by “streamlining the approval, coverage, and coding process so that innovative products are brought to market faster.”
The secretary’s report is also to include approaches to adopt “regulations and guidance that minimize and eliminate, as appropriate, the time and steps between approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and coverage decisions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).”
“And now in New York, I hear they passed a new regulation that if you use the word illegal immigrant – did I hear correctly? They want to charge you a fine of $250,000, in other words, sell your home in The Villages ‘cause you happen to say we don’t like illegal immigrants pouring into our country illegally. We want people to come into our country legally through a process, and we’re all in favor of that,” he said.
“And by the way, the fake news will cut the last part of the sentence off. They’ll just put the first part, and they’ll say man, is he rough! He’s too tough. I can’t vote for him. A nation must put his own citizens first. My administration is standing up for American seniors, and we’ll always protect the Medicare benefits you earned and paid for,” the president said.
He accused Democrats of slashing Medicare by $800 billion during the Obama administration to pay for Obamacare.
“Now one of their new proposals backed by more than 130 Democrat members of Congress would cost … $33 trillion – and that’s on the low side … and reduce Americans’ household income by $17,000 per year,” he said.
The president signed an executive order at the event Thursday to protect Medicare and improve its fiscal sustainability.
According to the White House, the executive order is designed to empower patients with more plan choices, access to telehealth and new therapies, and allow them to have more time with doctors. It is expected to maximize freedom for Medicare patients and providers by reducing regulatory burdens and eliminating unnecessary barriers.
It will also streamline approval of therapies, while reducing obstacles to improved patient care; improve quality by implementing reforms that better link payment to value; and protect beneficiaries by eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.
“The proposed Medicare for All Act of 2019, as introduced in the Senate ("Medicare for All") would destroy our current Medicare program, which enables our Nation's seniors and other vulnerable Americans to receive affordable, high-quality care from providers of their choice. Rather than upend Medicare as we know it, my Administration will protect and improve it,” the executive order stated.
The executive order directs the HHS secretary, within one year, to propose “a regulation and implement other administrative actions to enable the Medicare program to provide beneficiaries with more diverse and affordable plan choices.”
It also directs the secretary to submit to the president within 180 days a report that identifies approaches to modify Medicare fee-for-service (Medicare FFS) payments “to more closely reflect the prices paid for services” in Medicare Advantage and the commercial insurance market, “to encourage more robust price competition, and otherwise to inject market pricing into Medicare FFS reimbursement.”
The secretary is also directed to, within one year of the executive order’s signing, “propose regulatory and sub-regulatory changes to the Medicare program to encourage innovation for patients” by “streamlining the approval, coverage, and coding process so that innovative products are brought to market faster.”
The secretary’s report is also to include approaches to adopt “regulations and guidance that minimize and eliminate, as appropriate, the time and steps between approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and coverage decisions by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).”
Los Angeles County Pays
Over a Billion in Welfare to Illegal Aliens Over Two Years
In 2015 and 2016, Los Angeles County paid
nearly $1.3 billion in welfare funds to illegal aliens and their families. That
figure amounts to 25 percent of the total spent on the county’s entire needy
population, according to Fox News.
The state of California is home to more illegal aliens than any other
state in the country. Approximately one in five illegal aliens lives in
California, Pew reported.
Approximately a quarter of California’s 4 million illegal immigrants
reside in Los Angeles County. The county allows illegal immigrant parents with
children born in the United States to seek welfare and food stamp benefits.
The welfare benefits data acquired by Fox News comes from the Los
Angeles County Department of Public Social Services and shows welfare and food
stamp costs for the county’s entire population were $3.1 billion in 2015, $2.9
billion in 2016.
The data also shows that during the first five months of 2017, more than
60,000 families received a total of $181 million.
Over 58,000 families received a total of $602 million in benefits in
2015 and more than 64,000 families received a total of $675 million in 2016.
Robert Rector, a Heritage Foundation senior
fellow who studies poverty and illegal immigration, told Fox the costs represent “the tip of
the iceberg.”
“They get $3 in benefits for every $1 they spend,” Rector said. It can
cost the government a total of $24,000 per year per family to pay for things
like education, police, fire, medical, and subsidized housing.
In February of 2019, the Los Angeles city council signed a resolution
making it a sanctuary city. The resolution did not provide any new legal
protections to their immigrants, but instead solidified existing policies.
In October 2017, former California governor
Jerry Brown signed SB 54 into law. This bill made
California, in Brown’s own words, a “sanctuary state.” The Justice
Department filed a lawsuit against the State of California over the law. A
federal judge dismissed that suit in July. SB 54 took effect on Jan.
1, 2018.
According to Center for
Immigration Studies, “The new law
does many things: It forbids all localities from cooperating with ICE detainer
notices, it bars any law enforcement officer from participating in the
popular 287(g) program, and it prevents state and local police
from inquiring about individuals’ immigration status.”
Some counties in California have protested its implementation and joined
the Trump administration’s lawsuit against the state.
California’s campaign to provide public services to illegal immigrants
did not end with the exit of Jerry Brown. His successor, Gavin Newsom, is
just as focused as Brown in funding programs for illegal residents at the
expense of California taxpayers.
California’s budget earmarks millions of dollars annually to the One
California program, which provides free legal assistance to all aliens,
including those facing deportation, and makes California’s public universities
easier for illegal-alien students to attend.
According to the Fiscal Burden of Illegal
Immigration on United States Taxpayers 2017 report, for the estimated 12.5 million illegal
immigrants living in the country, the resulting cost is a $116
billion burden on the national economy and taxpayers each year, after
deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by some of those illegal immigrants.
BLOG: MOST FIGURES PUT THE NUMBER OF
ILLEGALS IN THE U.S. AT ABOUT 40 MILLION. WHEN THESE PEOPLE ARE HANDED AMNESTY,
THEY ARE LEGALLY ENTITLED TO BRING UP THE REST OF THEIR FAMILY EFFECTIVELY
LEAVING MEXICO DESERTED.
New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that more than 22 million
non-citizens now live in the United States.
Leaving
California to the Homeless
Donald
Trump visited enemy territory this week.
He came
out here to the deep blue state of California to raise a few million bucks at
private fundraisers in Silicon Valley and Beverly Hills.
He also
went down to the border with Mexico to inspect the wall the federal government
is building to stop illegal immigration and protect what no longer deserves to
be called the Golden State.
What
the president couldn't see while he was out here were all the wealthy and
productive Californians who are leaving this state in droves.
They are
the people who are tired of being tortured by high state taxes and bad laws
like the ones that prevent low-income housing from being built, or that make
their electricity and gasoline so expensive.
They are
the people who've watched the sidewalks of their great cities being turned into
permanent tent communities for the poor, the homeless, the drugged and the
mentally disturbed.
They
are the tax base that has been footing the bill for the social welfare benefits
and government services that are bestowed so generously on state citizens and
illegal immigrants.
They have
seen the grim future of their formerly great state and said to themselves,
"We're outta' here."
But
millions of Californians like me can't leave. We have kids and grandkids here.
We love
the state and its people. We love the weather, the beaches, the deserts and the
mountains.
What
we don't love is what the Democrat Party and its policies have been doing for
decades to harm California and its big cities.
The
Democrats running this state almost act like they hate it. All they seem to
want is more illegal immigrants, more crippling environmental laws and higher
prices for everything.
The
shocking TV images of huge homeless communities living in tents in Los Angeles
and San Francisco are the most glaring sign of the Democrats' failure.
Even
Democrats like Gov. Gavin Newsom agree that it has been state policies like
strict building laws and environmental regulations that have created tens of
thousands of homeless people.
Only
let's please not call them "homeless people." It's a misnomer.
Most of
the thousands of people you see on TV living in tents and sleeping bags are
homeless by choice.
They're
mostly drug addicts. Or mentally ill. Or bums or vagrants who've chosen to live
on the street amid their own garbage, used drug needles and human waste.
They're
also mostly males.
There are
lots of genuinely homeless people in California who need assistance from
government or private social agencies.
But
they're usually women and children and they're usually living in shelters where
they can get the help they need.
Shelters
have rules you have to follow and homeless mothers and their kids will abide by
them. Men won't.
We keep
hearing that we need to build more low-income housing units for the homeless.
But the
truth is, most of the men on the sidewalks of downtown L.A. wouldn't stay in a
shelter if it was located in the penthouse of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel.
Half of
the country's unsheltered homeless people live in California. LA Mayor Eric
Garcetti wants President Trump to solve the state's homeless crisis.
But it's
the responsibility of the Democrat-controlled state government, the Democrat
governor and the Democrat mayors - the ones who created the crisis in the first
place.
For
California natives like me, it's a crying shame.
The
most beautiful state in the U.S. has been wrecked by Democrats and it's only
going to get worse as more illegal immigrants arrive from Mexico and Central
America.
I'm
afraid it's only a matter of time before the state runs out of money and the
productive people who provide it. -
Self-Destruction in the Golden State
Relocating to California was once the goal of
many Americans. But in recent years, the luster of living in the “Golden
State” has dimmed considerably. Those who still desire to move to what was once
widely viewed as a semi-paradise on the West Coast might want to assess what
they’ll find before pulling up stakes and heading there.
The Los Angeles Times has surveyed and published some
unnerving California developments. In the area served by this newspaper, Times investigators discovered what certainly
should be termed failing grades if the region were an educational institution.
It’s not, of course, but over recent months, the hard truths they found
include:
• 95 percent of warrants for murder in Los
Angeles and 75 percent of those on the “most wanted” list contain the names of
illegal immigrants.
• Over two/thirds of the births in L.A. County
are from illegal immigrant parentage and are paid for by taxpayers.
• Nearly 35 percent of inmates in the state’s
detention centers are illegal immigrants.
• According to the FBI, half of the gang
members in Los Angeles are illegal immigrants from south of the state’s border.
•
In Los Angeles County, 5.1 million people speak only English and 3.1 million
speak only Spanish.
This information came from the mass-circulation
newspaper known for its liberal stance on almost all issues. Featuring
information about the effects of illegal immigration isn’t its usual practice.
The numbers we have cited didn’t appear in a single article. The bad news
compiled in this column was spread out over time. The bad news has led many
Californians to relocate themselves and their businesses to other parts of the
Golden State, even to other states.
Rather than simply accept the conclusions
reached above, I decided to ask a close friend who lives in Los Angeles County
if all of it was verifiable. He responded: “Yes it is. But there are bigger
problems that weren’t mentioned.” For instance, he pointed to the growing
number of vagrants living — and defecating — in the streets. He said the water
at the beaches is becoming hazardous to health and dangerous for swimming. He
told of business owners who have to get their sidewalks cleaned each morning.
And he reported that rats and disease-carrying insects have proliferated. Los
Angeles, he assured me, is filled with tents and absolute filth.
He then added the following:
Illegals
are registered to vote. Many are without a driver’s license and they get around
in dilapidated autos without insurance. A large number of these individuals
find jobs and demand to be paid only in cash. That way, there are no taxes paid
or reported. While many illegals are hard-working and otherwise model citizens,
they are encouraged to skirt the laws that everyone is supposed to obey. Even
they would confirm what the LA Times reported.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has responded to the
situation by calling for the imposition of a new “windfall tax” on retirement
incomes and stock market gains. She wants to distribute the funds to unemployed
illegal immigrants. Wasn’t it Karl Marx who suggested this as the way to solve
such problems (“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”)?
Pelosi regularly scoffs at President Trump’s
plan to build a wall at the border. She never airs the most important reason
for her opposition to keeping illegals from simply walking into the United
States. But her reason for such a stance is obvious: She expects that the
illegals who have already arrived and those who continue to cross into the
United States will vote for Democrats. And she’ll do whatever she can to care
for them, protect them, and urge their relatives to cross the border as well. Illegal
immigrants, like many legal immigrants and native-born Americans, are
overwhelmingly ignorant of limitations on government that made America great.
As soon as they are given the privilege of voting, they will speed the
conversion of California and the entire United States into a duplicate of
Venezuela or Cuba where central governments have total power.
Sad to state, California isn’t alone in
suffering from these problems. Pelosi’s home city of San Francisco is close
behind Los Angeles in its degradation. Other cities are close behind. The
entire nation seems determined to commit suicide. Illegal immigration must be
eliminated.
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