Free health care for non-citizens also necessarily includes letting non-citizens start health businesses specifically designed to exploit free health care (aka Medicaid) for non-citizens.
This is just one page of nearly 8,000 we’ve obtained showing how difficult it is to police fraud at the hundreds of “Medicaid Entrepreneurs” who’ve started businesses in Maine since 2018-2019.
When every non-citizen gets a huge dollar amount worth of free “care” and non-citizens control the fronts getting paid for that “care,” you create an incentive to bring more non-citizens into a state and get them on Medicaid. We even see cases where “New Mainers” are getting paid through a Medicaid provider to provide services that they are also receiving through Medicaid.
Our ability to police abuse of this system was based on people caring about their reputations and honor, people thinking they might get caught and put out of business. We don’t have that now. There is no fear of getting caught and, if you are, who cares?
