Man, who could have seen this happening in a million years?
Ron DeSantis signed a law that required hospitals to ask the immigration status of patients to prevent paying out the nose for Medicaid to illegal aliens, and, lo and behold, the law had its intended effect.
The real shocker here, however, is that Politico is the outlet that covered it.
Here's the subhead from the leftwing news site:
A POLITICO analysis found that Medicaid expenditures for undocumented immigrants in Florida has dropped dramatically since Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a law directing hospitals to ask patients about their immigration status.
Florida has stopped having to fund hospital visits for illegal aliens simply by ASKING IF THEY'RE ILLEGAL!
The solutions to all of our immigration problems are a lot easier than they appear.
Florida's Emergency Medical Assistance program for undocumented immigrants has seen a 54 percent drop in expenditures billed to Medicaid this year — with less than two months remaining in the fiscal year — since the state immigration law took effect, according to a POLITICO analysis.
They were able to cut their spending on hospital visits by illegals by more than half! And the law has only recently gone into effect.
One of the biggest costs of illegal immigration is from the medical benefits, in the form of Medicaid, where these border hoppers show up at the ER and just don't pay their bills, leaving you and me on the hook.
DeSantis' law has helped to solve this problem in Florida.
Data provided to POLITICO by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services show $148.4 million in state and federal Medicaid dollars went toward emergency coverage for immigrants in Florida in the year before the state's new immigration law took effect. As of May 3, $67 million has gone toward emergency coverage this year.
That's a tremendous drop. And the solution is laughably simple. Just a credible threat of "we know you're here illegally" is enough to deter a lot of people from abusing the system.
Small roadblocks like verifying legal status in the ER, requiring e-verify at job sites, cutting out government benefits, and making it harder for illegal aliens to find work would effectively result in massive self-deportation.
If your state is not bending over backward to accommodate illegal aliens then they'll go home. Or at least leave your state.
According to opponents of DeSantis's law, around half of this Medicaid spending is for pregnant women giving birth to new "American citizens" and therefore he should toss the whole law out altogether.
'Do we want the mothers of U.S. citizen babies avoiding the hospital when they unexpectedly go into labor?' [Leonardo] Cuello [Georgetown Professor] wrote in an email. 'This will have terrible long-term consequences for Florida.'
Oh, think of the consequences! Like ... I don't know, fewer illegal immigrants taking jobs, taking benefits, using up our tax money, driving down wages, driving housing prices up, and getting a free ticket to stay in the US thanks to anchor baby laws?
That would be awful!
It's not like Florida's law is turning away people who actually need the ER. It's just making some people think twice before abusing the free hospital service.
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