Across the globe, millions of people are on the move, defying borders and violating laws to escape poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and break into rich countries. The United States is their No. 1 destination.
The U.S. needs a strategy to limit the burden on Americans and protect our quality of life. Instead, the Democratic Party merely virtue signals, saying, “Welcome, take whatever we have.”
As of Jan. 1, California is offering Medi-Cal to approximately 760,000 undocumented migrants of all ages.
California’s health care system is already strained, with long emergency room wait times and a dire nurse shortage. A shortage of beds and mental health facilities prevents municipalities from moving the thousands of drug-addicted homeless people off the streets and into treatment. The state faces a staggering $68 billion deficit.
Yet the Left opts to spend money on migrants instead of on California’s own, showing utter disregard for the health care of local residents.
The California Republican Party warns that adding 760,000 undocumented people to the state’s health insurance rolls will exacerbate “access problems.” In short, Californians will wait longer and settle for less care.
Don’t think this lunacy is limited to one state. Oregon, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont, Illinois, Washington state and Massachusetts already cover migrants in specific age categories, and left-wing lawmakers are pushing to expand the coverage to all ages. New York lawmakers came close in June, but ended the legislative term without passing it.
In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to give migrants taxpayer-funded health coverage. It’s a knife in the back of hardworking Americans who struggle to pay medical bills. It will also doom this nation to a never-ending flood of strangers seeking government handouts.
Connecticut’s Democratic-controlled legislature has gone off the deep end, offering “Baby Bonds,” or taxpayer-funded savings accounts, for every child — including children of migrants in the country illegally — whose birth is covered by the state’s HUSKY public insurance program, even if their migrant parents arrived just days before the birth. Nest eggs courtesy of the taxpayer, for the express purpose of “closing the wealth gap.”
The Democratic Party’s zeal to provide migrants with free health insurance is extreme, compared with what is occurring around the globe, even in socialist-leaning countries.
In June, the Biden administration made the U.S. one of only a few first-world countries to sign on to the Rabat Declaration, sponsored by the United Nations, which declares that all migrants should have access to a country’s national health insurance programs. Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden and several other European countries that receive large numbers of migrants did not sign.
Even socialist countries like Norway are strictly limiting migrants to emergency care only, no comprehensive health insurance. French President Emmanuel Macron’s government is reassessing whether it can provide health benefits to migrants.
These countries see what the Democratic Party in the U.S. refuses to admit: that free health care is a magnet.
Contrary to Vice President Kamala Harris’ blather, the flood of migrants across the southern border is not due to “root causes” the United States can ameliorate with diplomacy and foreign aid. It’s a worldwide phenomenon. Many European and Scandinavian countries are adjusting their policies to protect their own residents from undue burdens. The U.S. is simply surrendering.
Offering health insurance also invites an influx of sick people from countries that cannot provide care. Venezuela’s health care system has collapsed. Hospitals there lack 80% to 90% of essential medicines, a situation that is pushing the sick and their families to flee. Neighboring Brazil is reporting the reappearance of communicable infections such as tuberculosis, hepatitis A, whooping cough, diphtheria and measles because of the influx of Venezuelans needing care. Expect similar problems in the U.S.
Open borders, free meals and hotel rooms, and promises of free health coverage produce predictable results. Migration across the U.S. southern border set yet another record in December.
As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) commented on Newsom’s health policy, “Nothing is free, the California taxpayers have to pay for it.” She added, “It’s treason. No other way to say it.”
At the least, it’s a betrayal.
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Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey. To find out more about Betsy McCaughey and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.
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** the Democratic Party merely virtue signals, saying, “Welcome, take whatever we have.”
** As of Jan. 1, California is offering Medi-Cal to approximately 760,000 undocumented illegal migrants of all ages.
** Yet the Left opts to spend money on migrants instead of on California’s own, showing utter disregard for the health care of local residents.
** In blue state after blue state, Democrats are pushing to give migrants taxpayer-funded health coverage. It’s a knife in the back of hardworking Americans who struggle to pay medical bills.
** It will also doom this nation to a never-ending flood of strangers seeking government handouts. The objective is Socialism.
** As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) commented on Newsom’s health policy, “Nothing is free, the California taxpayers have to pay for it.” She added, “It’s treason. No other way to say it.”
And yet the treasonous Democrat Party supporters (Useful Idiots) are still voting for Democrats and their own destructions.
Just like the Rats in the “Piped Piper” story. The rats blindly followed the Piped Piper to their deaths. Then the Piped Piper took all of the town’s children when they didn’t have the money to pay the Piped Piper.
Is one a fool because they are a Democrat? OR
Is one a Democrat because they are a fool?
Hi Scruffy. It’s hard to believe that idiots like Perloser, Schiff (2 ts at the end?), Schumer, Nadler, Grewsome, Hochul, Whitmer, Biden, Christie get re-elected. And that’s just the start of a very long list.
Unfortunately in many cases, its because those voting from them, JUST CAN’T seem to bother voting for someone else..
Illegal Immigrants, come to America, EVERYTHING IS YOURS-AND ITS FREE FOR THE TAKING.!
IT should bloody well ALSO BE criminal… Defrauding the Tax payers.
Don’t fine just the person, but defund and fine THE PARTY!
I’d even contemplate if it was possible, FINING THEIR VOTER BASE somehow.
“…BUT There Is Also Another Tendency That Is Common Among People. When They Can, They Wish To Live And prosper at the expense of others.,, this Fatal Desire Has Its Origin in the Very Nature of Man-In That Primitive, Universal, And Insuppressible Instinct That Impels Him to Satisfy His Desires with the Least Possible Pain.”
THE LAW-FREDERIC BASTIAT
Every dollar redistributed to illegal criminal border jumpers is one less dollar spent on legal America citizen taxpayers who were Democrat deceived into buying into these mindless bankrupted social programs with no warning that the funds would be socially redistributed to the world poor on an international basis. You cannot allow 10 million hungry mouths to enter the country with no empty domiciles for them to live in and no extra food supply to feed their infinite appetites without seeing the cost of those goods and services shoot through the roof. It is taxation without representation of the highest order created in the lowest of morality. Maybe Lincoln was wrong and you CAN fool off of THE PEOPLE, all of the time. But they don’t have to, just long enough to steal elections in lies and retain power in lawbreaking acts which deprive legal American citizens of their hard-earned social benefits. The Democrat party itself should be made responsible for these government bankrupting malfeasances in fines so heavy they will never again be able to buy elections with honest people’s money who never voted for them, unless from the grave. Any Democrat State governor, legislature or city mayor caught using COVID funds to feed, medicate and house illegal sanctuary city non-citizen aliens should not only be fined, but jailed for theft of public funds.
Thing is, these leftist traitor politicians would NEVER BE ALLOWED TO PUSH THESE agendas, if their voter base didn’t KEEP VOTING THEM INTO OFFICE.. SO some how THEY imo, need to be punished…
“Yet the Left opts to spend money on migrants….showing utter disregard for the health care of local residents.”
That should read “showing udder disregard…” California, and most of the remaining states, has become one enormous mammalian protuberance.
YET YOU can bet their voter base, WILL STILL vote en-mass for whomever the Dem nominee is.. REGARDLESS.
Why not? Gubment is LUNACY so it makes perfect sense. We tax payers are here to finance these idiot, criminal endeavors. The gubment could care less about us. In this case, it’s all about votes in the November presidential elections. Look what Biden did for us, we should vote for him. And I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if many of the illegal aliens are allowed to vote.
Preventive health care saves on hospitalization. Keep coat down.
If the illegal criminal immigrants weren’t allowed in the U.S. by the Democrat Party. The U.S. citizens would NOT have to pay for these illegal criminal immigrants health care along with their food, clothing, housing and transportation.
What of AMERICANS.. Who’re getting priced out of those hospitals, because they are spending so much time/space and money dealing with illegals??
“The Art of Government is to take As Much Money as possible from one Party of citizens to give to the other.”
Author Unknown
“The Art of Government is to take As Much Money as possible from one Party of citizens to give to the other.”Democrat President, Joe Biden, once said, They’re going to put you all back in Chains”
Author Unknown
“The Art of Government is to take As Much Money as possible from one Party of citizens to give to the other.”Democrat President, Joe Biden, once said, They’re going to put you all back in Chains