{"id":1775723,"date":"2022-12-15T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775723"},"modified":"2022-12-15T07:17:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T12:17:35","slug":"blue-states-encourage-illegal-immigration-when-they-subsidize-health-care-for-undocumented-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blue-states-encourage-illegal-immigration-when-they-subsidize-health-care-for-undocumented-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue States Encourage Illegal Immigration When They Subsidize Health Care For Undocumented Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fblue-states-encourage-illegal-immigration-when-they-subsidize-health-care-for-undocumented-migrants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1775723&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Anyone who doubts the radical nature of the modern left should consider words uttered by none other than Hillary Clinton nearly three decades ago. In 1993, testifying before Congress on her husband Bill Clinton\u2019s health plan, the future presidential candidate expressed the following view on who should qualify for taxpayer-subsidized health benefits:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not think the comprehensive health care benefits should be extended to those who are undocumented workers and illegal aliens. We do not want to do anything to encourage more illegal immigration into this country. We know now that too many people come in for medical care, as it is. We certainly don\u2019t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Secretary Clinton\u2019s words stand in direct contrast to actions taken by multiple blue states, which are expanding access to taxpayer-funded health benefits for undocumented immigrants. As Clinton herself noted, these actions will only \u201cencourage more illegal immigration into this country\u201d \u2014 at a time when our southern border remains under siege.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Colorado and Washington State Actions<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, federal officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved Washington state\u2019s application for an Obamacare waiver under Section 1332 of that law. The waiver will allow residents to apply for coverage on the state\u2019s insurance exchange without regard to immigration status.<\/p>\n<p>Under Obamacare, individuals must have their citizenship (but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniperresearchgroup.com\/post\/2010\/09\/22\/white-house-myths-vs-facts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>not<\/em> their identity<\/a>) verified to purchase coverage on state exchanges. CMS approved Washington\u2019s application to waive this regulatory requirement, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/files\/document\/1332-wa-fact-sheet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a> the state\u2019s plan \u201cwill help Washington work towards its goals of improving health equity and reducing racial disparities by expanding access to coverage for the uninsured population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While individuals without legal documentation cannot qualify for federal insurance subsidies, Washington will instead provide them with state-funded subsidies to lower their premiums. The state has thus far allocated a $50 million subsidy pool for the coming year, along with $5 million for the 2024 calendar year. Households with incomes below 250 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/aspe.hhs.gov\/topics\/poverty-economic-mobility\/poverty-guidelines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">federal poverty level<\/a>, or $69,375 for a family of four in 2022, will qualify for the subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>The development in Washington state comes as Colorado also works to implement a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-pulse\/2022\/12\/12\/another-covid-christmas-with-rsv-and-flu-too-00073430\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">law passed last year<\/a> to provide subsidized coverage to the undocumented. About 5,700 people have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2022\/11\/30\/colorado-health-insurance-omnisalud-undocumented-residents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed up thus far<\/a> for a program that will use $58 million in state funds to subsidize immigrants\u2019 health coverage in 2023. (Because the program uses a mechanism other than the \u201cofficial\u201d Exchange to provide coverage, Colorado did not need CMS approval for this program, unlike the Washington state effort.)<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Lawsuits Ahead in Oregon?<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Simultaneous to the developments in Colorado and Washington state, another event on the \u201cLeft Coast\u201d could prompt more taxpayer subsidies funding care for individuals not legally present. In last month\u2019s midterm elections, Oregon voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/elections\/results\/race\/2022-11-08-ballot_initiative-OR-39167\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">narrowly passed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.oregonlegislature.gov\/liz\/2021R1\/Downloads\/MeasureDocument\/SJR12\/Enrolled\">Measure 111<\/a>, amending the state\u2019s constitution to guarantee a right to health care.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon measure guarantees health care to \u201cevery resident of Oregon,\u201d regardless of citizenship or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden is issuing waivers to states that want to allow residents to apply for subsidized health care regardless of immigration status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":1775726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4138,6980,5736,6919,4964,4207,3813,5371,9178,9179],"class_list":["post-1775723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-blue","tag-care","tag-encourage","tag-federalist","tag-health","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-migrants","tag-subsidize","tag-undocumented"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1775726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}