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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yup.  Proven in black and white - when you scroll down from what @GOP highlighted in yellow it CLEARLY STATES that it does NOT apply to illegal aliens.   Republicans are LYING about the reasons for the shutdown.  If the Republicans are in the right about all of this then why are they telling PROVEN, UNDISPUTABLE LIES?

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The fact remains:  illegal aliens currently receive free medical care in the United States, where they cannot be refused treatment at any emergency room at any time.

Illegal aliens receive emergency Medicaid under a law passed in 1986.  "Hospitals can get federal Medicaid funding to reimburse them for emergency services they are required to provide to low-income individuals, [b]regardless of immigration status,[/b] which includes undocumented people," Mr Cuello told us.

"Emergency Medicaid is very temporary coverage for the medical services provided at all emergency rooms, often just one service on one day, but not necessarily ongoing health insurance enrollment, like a U.S. citizen can pay for, or receives by qualifying for Medicaid," he added.[/quote]

That law refer to is EMTALA, and it wasn't about "illegals."  It is about providing ANYONE with emergency care, regardless of who they are.  And, it ONLY applies to emergency medicine.  Typically that means just stabilizing a patient experiencing a genuine emergency.  You cannot get chemotherapy through emergency care, you cannot get dialysis, organ transplants, mental health care, physical therapy, prescription medicines, prenatal care, chronic disease care, immunizations, dental care, elective surgeries and on and on and on through EMTALA emergency room care.  And, EMTALA only represents 0.2% of Medicaid expenditures and only 0.03% of total US healthcare expenditures overall.  It's NOT "$1.5 trillion for illegals."  Not even remotely.

Republicans continue to lie.  [/quote]

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