Michelle Malkin: Illinois Pols Expand Medicaid for Illegals; Slash Disabled Kids’ Aid

Michellle Malkin reports:

Here’s your “America’s screwed-up priorities” story of the day from the progressive-infested land of corruption, the state of Illinois.

In late April, the state House of Representatives passed a bill to expand the so-called “All Kids” health care program in order to provide comprehensive, taxpayer-subsidized health benefits to illegal aliens under the age of 18. (The initial expansions of the bloated, out-of-control program to illegal immigrants were the brainchild of now-imprisoned corruptocrat Gov. Rod Blagojevich.) According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the program “has already cost the state over $500 million, and audits conducted by the Illinois Auditor General indicate that nearly 70% of enrollees and 65% of the total cost of the program comes from illegal aliens.”


GOP State Rep. Bill Mitchell noted that “between 2009 and 2014 Illinois spent $320 million on health coverage for undocumented immigrants and the expanded ALL KIDS plan. None of the costs were matched by the federal government. Illinois taxpayers paid the entire cost.”

Open-borders lobbyists have waged an intense campaign for the Medicaid expansion to their imported masses of future Democrat voters. One leading illegal alien rights’ operative reminded politicians that “Illinois led the nation with bipartisan measures to remove barriers for undocumented immigrants to work, create jobs and thrive with the passage in 2011 of the Illinois DREAM Act and Temporary Visitor Driver's Licenses Program.”

Just a reminder when Illinois comes asking for bailout.