Open borders cost: Illinois taxpayers hit for $1.6 Billion for illegal alien healthcare | Eastern NC Now

One of the big costs to taxpayers from illegal alien freeloaderss is for their healthcare.  An audit by state officials of Illinois found that during the Pritzker era, which corresponds to the Biden era found $1.6 Billion in state taxpayer spending for healthcare for illegal aliens.  Pritzker opened up a state healthcare program for illegal aliens over 42, giving them free healthcare.  Like California, he has gone over and above what illegal aliens could get in free health care.

The healthcare payments are only part of Pritzker's spending on illegal aliens.  Republican legislators had demanded releast of the audit and had to put on pressure to get it.  Now they are calling for an audit of all state spending on illegal aliens.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/28/gross-mismanagement-taxpayers-in-democrat-controlled-illinois-paid-1-6-billion-for-illegals-healthcare/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/blue-state-govs-gross-mismanagement-cost-taxpayers-1-6b-illegal-immigrant-healthcare-audit

All states get stuck with healthcare costs for illegal aliens.  For acute conditions, they are given Emergency Medicaid for 6 months, but for chronic conditions like kidney diseast that require expensive dialysis several times a week, that Emergency Medicaid is routinely extended every time it runs out for the rest of their lives.  Medicaid costs are split between federal, state, and local governments.

Otherwise, illegal aliens just turn up at the Emergency Room for health care, knowning they cannot be refused.  The cost of their care is transfered by the hospitals to paying patients, raising the cost to American citizens for their health care and for their health insurance.

President Trump's deportation efforts will take a huge financial burden off of American citizens and American taxpayers.