Comment requires responses to the cost of illegal health care taxpayers on immigrants

First on Fox: The president of the government’s supervisory and reform committee, James Comer, requests responses to the cost of taxpayers’s health care for illegal immigrants.

Letters to eight governors of the blue state and their health services are a decision to obtain more information on the issue after it was spent that $ 16.2 billion was spent on “emergency services funded by Medicaid” for the country’s inhabitants illegally during the first three years of the Biden administration, according to a press release.

In the letters, COMER requests information about which can register for the statement and “Medicaid” programs as well as lists and costs associated with operations carried out on illegal immigrants.

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The chairman of the chamber’s supervisory committee, James Comer, heads an investigation into the case of Jeffrey Epstein. (Images Kevin Dietsch / Getty)

“More specifically, the committee is investigating waste, fraud and abuse in several Medicaid programs due to the failure of the Biden administration to apply American immigration laws and the expansion of services for illegal foreigners,” wrote Comer.

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The letters were sent to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the governor of Illinois JB Pritzker, the governor of Colorado Jared Polis, the governor of Maine Janet Mills, the governor of Minnesota Tim Walz, the governor of Oregon Tina Kotek, the Gov. Bob Ferguson and the Government of New York, with the health departments, in the eight states. Commer wants “documents and communications” dating from January 2019 so far. The deadline for cooperation is September 17.

“While our office examines the president’s letter, Governor Hochul condemns this attack on emergency health care that saves lives by Congress Republicans,” Hochul spokesperson Emma Wallner told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Minnesota, California and Illinois have each been faced with budgetary concerns this year due to the continuous cost of the availability of public health care for illegal immigrants in the MEDICAIDS programs of states, which has led to certain recent reforms, The Wall Street Journal reported in June.

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In addition to requesting more information, COMER also specifically requests from WALZ, the candidate for the Democratic vice-president of 2024, to explain a declaration of June 12 during a conference surveillance hearing with “governors of the sanctuary states”.

“I do not have the exact number. It is not Medicaid. It is a state that does this via Minnesotacare, a different program,” said the Democratic Governor during a hearing when he was asked how many illegal immigrants obtain Medicaid services.

“Governor Walz’s statement is probably misleading on the basis of programmatic relations between the Minnesota Medicaid program, also known as medical assistance (MA), his medical emergency counterpart (EMA) and the Minnesotacare program,” wrote Comer.

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A family of five claiming to be Guatemala and a man declaring that he was from Peru, in a pink shirt, crosses the desert after crossing the border wall in the Tucson sector of the American-Mexican border on August 29, 2023. (AP photo / Matt York)

“In addition, the Committee includes that Minnesota has co-in place of funds for EMA and Minnesotacare programs potentially allowing federal funds to cover illegal immigrants as part of the Minnesotacare program,” he continued.

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Apart from health insurance coverage funded by taxpayers, the border crisis has led to a major medical care in border communities like Yuma, Arizona, as many areas along the southern border have only a handful of hospitals in a particular region.