California’s Massive Medicaid Shortfall Would Disappear If It Quit Paying $8B For Illegals’ Health Care

Strange as it sounds, Hillary Clinton was right. In 1993, the then-first lady testified before Congress about the health care package her task force developed and said this about providing benefits to migrants:

We 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’t want them having the same benefits that American citizens are entitled to have.

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California, among other blue states that have in recent years extended government-funded health coverage to those in the country

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