RFK Jr. hearings reveal the border disaster underneath the Biden administration is why our healthcare has faltered

Throughout Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s contentious Senate affirmation listening to as HHS secretary nominee, he revealed that Medicaid prices blew out by a staggering 60% throughout Joe Biden’s presidency.

“Our ship is sinking. Our 60% improve in Medicaid over the previous 4 years is the most important finances line now, and it’s rising quicker than another.”

Biden’s border invasion is what occurred over the previous 4 years.

It stands to purpose that you probably have an additional 10 to twenty million new potential low-income sufferers, none of whom has contributed a penny in internet taxes, you’ll get a blowout in Medicaid and Medicare prices.

That is the soiled little secret that the Biden administration and their minions within the “fact-checking” enterprise have been busy denying.

However discuss to medical doctors who’ve labored close to the border, and they’re going to let you know unlawful aliens get ­limitless taxpayer-funded well being care, and plenty of have critical well being issues.

“Ask me what number of of my pregnant sufferers who’re illegals have Medicaid?” stated a physician I do know who labored for 2 years at hospitals in Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas, and needs to stay nameless.

“100%.”

Bonus for incapacity

Most of those sufferers, he says, are additionally on some type of incapacity profit, corresponding to Supplemental Safety Earnings, which is meant for low-income aged, blind or disabled US residents.

Weight problems, hypertension and adjustment problems are among the many commonest causes for the additional profit, though one younger lady he noticed had a incapacity attributed to a automotive crash in Texas by which she was concerned whereas crossing the border.

“They don’t converse the language so now it takes me, on common, an additional quarter-hour per affected person attempting to talk with them by a translator. Guess who pays for the interpretation companies?” the doc stated.

The taxpayer, in fact.

“Each unlawful leaping the border in Arizona and New Mexico was given an envelope with paperwork for well being care, meals stamps and $2,200 in money, all a part of their transit papers. Their first cease after getting this envelope was both Walmart or the emergency room.”

He says Customs and Border Safety would supply them with “vouchers from the federal authorities on a person foundation to cowl the well being care . . . They’d a bunch quantity and coverage quantity that was [meant to be] for federal staff’ medical health insurance . . . That will default again to Medicare.”

The hospital would ship any further payments again to the Division of Homeland Safety.

One hospital he labored at made a $220,000 revenue within the OB-GYN division in comparison with earlier years of continual losses as a result of the assured authorities funds have been so profitable.

The price of the “free” well being care is astronomical.

He handled one unlawful migrant from Honduras who crossed the border whereas in labor and delivered a child with extreme congenital defects.

Mom and child needed to be medevac’ed to Tucson, Ariz., for a number of surgical procedures at a value he estimates as in extra of $1 million.

The kid survived, fortunately, however America is solely unable to supply costly well being care to each sick particular person on the earth.

There need to be limits or the ship, as Kennedy stated, is sunk.

Hosp-care crossers

But, as my physician supply says, he noticed unlawful migrants with continual diseases who had particularly crossed the border for cutting-edge well being care, whereas Americans who pay taxes and insurance coverage have to attend in ever-longer traces.

One American affected person, the pregnant spouse of a neighborhood rancher, got here to his hospital with preeclampsia and dangerously hypertension of 220/120, which is classed as a hypertensive emergency, risking the sudden dying of mom and youngster.

She sat within the triage space of the emergency room behind three unlawful migrants for a wait that will have been greater than three hours besides that the physician noticed the issue and intervened to avoid wasting her and her child, solely to be reprimanded later for leaping the road.

The burden on finite well being assets is simply one of many myriad issues attributable to unlawful migration, which incorporates child-sex trafficking and the importation of violent overseas criminals.

But the left is castigating President Trump for doing what he was elected to do — clear up Joe Biden’s mess — and lefties are pretending the US economic system will collapse with out taxpayer-subsidized slave labor.

Among the many most vocal critics has been the US Convention of Catholic Bishops, which slammed Trump’s govt orders on border safety and mass deportations, saying they’re “unacceptable,” “appalling,” and “opposite to American and Christian values.”

Over within the Vatican, Pope Francis went additional, describing the mass deportations as a “shame” that will make “the poor wretches, who don’t have anything, pay the invoice of the inequalities” of the world.

But their view of free passage to America for the world’s poor as some unconditional entitlement isn’t soundly based mostly in church instructing, as loads of Catholics have identified.

Probably the most high-profile of the dissenters is the influential Robert Cardinal Sarah, the Guinean former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship on the Vatican, who instructed Nico Spuntoni within the Italian newspaper Il Tempo this week: “As arrange at this time, migration is a brand new type of slavery or human trafficking, as there’s trafficking in arms.”

European ‘extinction’

Sarah, an in depth buddy of the late Pope Benedict XVI, stated Europe is dealing with “extinction, each culturally and demographically,” as a result of it has strayed from its Christian roots.

However, “as an African man, I imagine that the answer isn’t and can’t be the ‘ethnic alternative’ of uncontrolled immigration, which impoverishes African nations, leaving them with out younger males.”

Vice President J.D. Vance, a practising Catholic convert, stated he was “heartbroken” by the ­bishops’ criticism.

“The US Convention of Catholic Bishops wants to really look within the mirror a bit bit and acknowledge that once they obtain over $100 million to assist resettle unlawful immigrants, are they nervous about humanitarian issues? Or are they really nervous about their backside line? We’re going to implement immigration regulation. We’re going to guard the American folks, he instructed CBS Information’ “Face the Nation.”

Vance was referring to taxpayer funding utilized by Catholic charities and different NGOs to assist facilitate folks smuggling throughout the border.

This was one of many important causes for Trump’s freeze on federal grants this week, with the intention of aligning federal funding with administration priorities, particularly on border safety, DEI and local weather coverage.

America is probably the most beneficiant nation on the earth.

Nevertheless it’s no good to anybody if, as Kennedy warns, the entire ship sinks.