Doctor Mike

What's your understanding as to why the Republican leadership is okay with making these cuts?

What is their plan?

Which is devastating because then the emergency room becomes primary care.

Emergency rooms lose money.

They close.

People can't get care.

Yeah, there's been a heavy sticking point for the Republicans surrounding health care for illegal immigrants.

They've said that time and time again, and I'm going to play it out how I've experienced the information coming at me, and I'd love for you to reflect on it.

Initially, it was Mike Johnson coming out and saying, we don't want illegal immigrants to get funding dollars from these ACA subsidies.

On the flip side, you come out and say, that's illegal.

We do not provide Medicare, ACA subsidies to those who are here illegally.

And they say, well, yes, but if they use the emergency room or if they get some kind of protected status, that bypasses those rules that you're saying.

Is my understanding correct?

And what else am I missing?

I believe it was KFF said something like 1% of that budget will go to getting healthcare for illegal undocumented individuals because if they end up in the ER for a really rational reason,

because you're not going to ask for someone's immigration status when they're having a heart attack, because you won't get that answer, especially if they're unconscious.

So based on our rules that we have, the EMTLA, we have to treat everyone in the ER.

And your Hippocratic Oath.

And Hippocratic Oath.

We would treat those patients, and some of the spending from that budget would go there.