Strange: Ilegals No Longer Eligible For MinnesotaCare

Hey, weren’t we told that illegals were not get government healthcare? Not Obamacare or Medicare or Medicaid? The media and Democrat politicians were very explicit about this

As new year arrives, undocumented immigrants lose access to MinnesotaCare

About 15,000 undocumented adults in Minnesota lost access to their state-funded health care on Jan. 1.

In 2023, the Minnesota Legislature — which then had a DFL trifecta — passed a bill that granted undocumented Minnesotans access to MinnesotaCare, a health care program for low-income people that began in the 1990s. The program helps those who are ineligible for Medicaid but unable to afford private health insurance.

Enrollment opened in 2024, and beginning in 2025, undocumented people were able to get care through the program if they were eligible based on their income.

But about halfway through the year, a divided Legislature voted to end those benefits for undocumented adults.

Ma Elena Gutierrez leads the group Fe y Justicia, a faith-based nonprofit that has organized around health equity. She said undocumented people are likely to put off care like surgeries and preventative checkups, and to forgo medications.

Well, they can go back to their home countries if they don’t like it. It’s that easy. The US is not your mommy and daddy.

John Connolly, deputy commissioner and state Medicaid director in the Department of Human Services, said that those who no longer have coverage can be seen at federally qualified health centers or community health centers, which provide care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. But he said that might put a strain on those clinics, which won’t be reimbursed for those services.

“We worry both for people in terms of their access to services, but also in terms of providers having a steady form of payment which strengthens them overall,” he said.

Wait, you mean illegals are going to jam up health centers in Minnesota? I have zero sympathy for the people of Minnesota who keep voting for lefty politicians who support illegal aliens.

Hennepin Healthcare frequently serves undocumented patients. Pam Quast, director of patient access and financial security for Hennepin Healthcare, said that those who no longer have health insurance coverage can still get care through Hennepin Healthcare’s uncompensated-care program. Under that program, patients don’t receive a bill. Hennepin Healthcare conducts their own financial calculations and write-offs, and is then reimbursed through the state and federal government.

A program meant for Americans who cannot afford the care will be taken over by illegals, and then gets reimbursed for those illegals

The Department of Human Services has issued this guidance for undocumented immigrants in English, Oromo, Somali and Spanish.

Come to the U.S. and do not speak English.