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Illinois taxpayers subsidizing noncitizen healthcare draws bipartisan criticism

Taxpayers have been subsidizing healthcare for noncitizens.

"In 2020, during the pandemic, the Democrats at the State House, they enacted essentially with the budget process, taxpayer subsidies for undocumented citizens in Illinois that were over the age of 65," explains Greg Bishop.


In 2022, the program was expanded to include noncitizens 42 and older.

"Then the costs continued to balloon where there was an estimate from an audit that looked at the coming fiscal year that starts July 1 in Illinois. That could mean taxpayers would be on the hook for more than a billion-- with a B-- of healthcare costs for undocumented migrants."

The cost projection was drastic enough to cause Governor J.B. Pritzker to freeze the program for the younger demographic.

READ: Illinois’ program of taxpayers subsidizing noncitizen health care criticized from all sides

Greg Bishop, Associate Editor at The Center Square and host of Bishop On Air at WMAY in Springfield, IL joins The Marc Cox Morning Show with more. Listen above.

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