Reinvent Illinois

Medicaid Savings

Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Norman L. Ringler in Reform Ideas

My wife works in hospital registration. Every day she is witness to patients accessing the emergency room for care, knowing they are most likely illegal immigrants with falsified credentials abusing the Medicaid system. Many are pregnant mothers ready to deliver with no prenatal care and no primary care doctor.

The number one cost in the state budget is Medicaid. We must stop sheltering illegal immigrants in this state. Deport them, fine their employers and empower local law enforcement and hospitals to report them when discovered.

I’m sick of paying for illegal immigrants to have babies born as US citizens here at our emergency rooms.