Losing Patients: Trump Seeks to Remove Illegals From Medicaid

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is ordering states to
remove those who don't match up with federal databases in
an effort to get illegal aliens off of Medicaid. Ira
Melman with the Federation for American Immigration Reform says this
is long overdue.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The limited benefits that are available, the priority should be
on covering American citizens who are in need of these
benefits and making it clear to people if you are
in the country illegally that you are not going to
be able to get access to these benefits.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
An estimated one point four million Medicaid enrollees fail to
meet citizenship or immigration requirements. Corey Jelsen News Radio seven
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