Senator Chuck Schumer

As we talked about, more deductibles, more co-pays.

What do I do?

So we've got to move fairly quickly.

Okay, number one, this bill, what we're fighting for is healthcare insurance.

Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, not one dollar, not one effing dollar can go to an undocumented immigrant.

That's the law, and they haven't shown a single situation where it happens.

Now, maybe they can find something by accident or something.

Is that true or no?

No.

Let me just modify what you said.

Someone, this is a law that's passed in 1986, signed by Ronald Reagan, because people were being turned down from nursing homes, mainly American citizens.

I mean, not nursing homes, from hospitals and emergency rooms who said, you don't have insurance, go somewhere else.

And they die.

So this has always had bipartisan support that people show up in emergency rooms, in real emergencies.

A real answer here, we shouldn't have people going to emergency rooms unless it's a real emergency.

And that's why these community health clinics and these rural hospitals are so important.

And you shut those down, it's gonna have more people go to emergency rooms for non-emergency situations.

And so when someone shows up, American citizen or otherwise, in this emergency room, and they don't have insurance, different hospitals have different ways of paying for it.

Some pay for it by different programs.

Some pay for it by state and local.