Miranda Devine: Contentious RFK Jr. hearings reveal the border crisis under the Biden administration is why our healthcare has faltered

During Bobby Kennedy Jr.’s contentious Senate confirmation hearing as HHS secretary nominee, he revealed that Medicaid costs blew out by a staggering 60% during Joe Biden’s presidency.“Our ship is sinking.Our 60% increase in Medicaid over the past four years is the biggest budget line now, and it’s growing faster than any other.”Biden’s border invasion is what happened over the past four years.

It stands to reason that if you have an extra 10 to 20 million new potential low-income patients, none of whom has contributed a penny in net taxes, you will get a blowout in Medicaid and Medicare costs.This is the dirty little secret that the Biden administration and their minions in the “fact-checking” business have been busy denying.But talk to doctors who have worked near the border, and they will tell you illegal aliens get ­unlimited taxpayer-funded health care, and many have serious health problems.“Ask me how many of my pregnant patients who are illegals have Medicaid?” said a doctor I know who worked for two years at hospitals in Arizona, New Mexico and west Texas, and wishes to remain anonymous.“100%.”Most of these patients, he says, are also on some form of disability benefit, such as Supplemental Security Income, which is intended for low-income aged, blind or disabled US citizens.Obesity, hypertension and adjustment disorders are among the most common reasons for the extra benefit, although one young woman he saw had a disability attributed to a car crash in Texas in which she was involved while crossing the border.“They don’t speak the language so now it takes me, on average, an extra 15 minutes per patient trying to speak with them through a translator.Guess who pays for the translation services?” the doc said.The taxpayer, of course.“Every illegal jumping the border in Arizona and New Mexico was given an envelope with documents for health care, food stamps and $2,200 in cash, all part of their transit papers.

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