{"id":24839,"date":"2015-01-21T17:05:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24839"},"modified":"2015-01-21T17:05:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T22:05:18","slug":"there-is-a-cost-to-bad-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=24839","title":{"rendered":"There Is A Cost To Bad Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

There has been no effort made to close the borders by the Obama Administration<\/a>. The Administration constantly denies that there is a cost to illegal immigration<\/a>. Residents of Massachusetts might have a different opinion on that.<\/p>\n

Judicial Watch<\/a> posted an article yesterday detailing the cost of illegal immigration in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Though it violates both state and federal law, Massachusetts spent tens of millions of dollars to give illegal immigrants medical care\u2014including prescription drugs, physical therapy and dental services\u2014through its taxpayer-funded healthcare program for low-income individuals.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tax-paying residents of the Bay State should be outraged, to say the least. The information comes straight out of a scathing report <\/a>that contains the findings of an investigation conducted by Massachusetts State Auditor<\/a> Suzanne Bump. It reveals that questionable or prohibited medical claims totaling $35,137,347 were reimbursed by the state\u2019s Medicaid<\/a> agency known as MassHealth<\/a>. A chunk of it went to non-emergency services for illegal immigrants, according to the audit.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The problem has gotten so out of control that a few years ago a Democratic congressman from Ohio<\/a> introduced legislation <\/a>requiring foreign countries to reimburse American<\/a> taxpayers for the exorbitant medical expenses of illegal immigrants. The measure, known as the PAYBACK \u00a0Act (Preventing All Your Bucks from Aiding non-Citizens<\/a> is Key) was estimated to save the U.S. government billions annually and ensure that public funds were not used to finance healthcare services for illegal immigrants. The bill was referred to the House Subcommittee on Border, Maritime and Global Counterterrorism for consideration but didn\u2019t get very far after that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How long will American taxpayers put up with this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There has been no effort made to close the borders by the Obama Administration. The Administration constantly denies that there is a cost to illegal immigration. Residents of Massachusetts might have a different opinion on that. Judicial Watch posted an … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8646,8647,8648],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commonwealth-of-massachusetts","tag-cost-of-illegal-immigration","tag-massachusetts-state-auditor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24840,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}