Ro Khanna explains “the sticking point” of the government shutdown: Emergency Medicaid for Illegals

You're on the verge of a shutdown, bro. The argument on the other side Yeah. says that the tax credits and the health care subsidies will largely go to folks that are here illegally. Can you confirm or debunk that? First of all, it's a it's a very small portion of people that we're talking about. So 90% is not anything to do with those who are undocumented. That's just the math, right? I mean, so we can argue about the 10%, but we have in this country something called emergency Medicaid. What does that mean? If you're undocumented and you show up to the hospital, we will take care of you. I

believe that is correct. I don't think if you're undocumented and you show up to a hospital that you should be denied care. Well, who pays for that? We have an emergency Medicaid program. And I guess if you mean that when you fund Medicaid, when you fund the Affordable Care Act that you're saying you're funding some of it for undocumented people who are showing up in emergency situations, then yeah, you're funding that. My view of it is that let's be honest that that's not where the big money and the budgets are. You're talking about a small group of folks. You can argue the cultural point about it, but don't make that the numbers