Senator Chuck Schumer
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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.
And a lot of them pay for it by charity.
Exactly.
So that's what happens here.
And this idea that illegal immigrants are getting this money is crazy.
Crazy.
You know, I can't.
No, that's the point here.
Whatever they want to say about this 1986 law, 1968 law, maybe they want to change it.
It has nothing to do with the debate we're in.
And I want to say nothing.
Again, no Medicare, no insurance, no Medicare, no Medicaid, no ACA goes to illegal immigrants, period.
Why are they doing this?
This is, it's because they always try to divert attention away from the real issue.
But that's politics in general.
I know, but Mike, this is so serious.
It's always politics in general.