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Re-upload of r/fosscad from 2015 - June 2025.
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u/Namk49001 · 2025-06-30 15:55:16 UTC · score 4
You need a social security number for those benefits. Illegals don't have social security numbers, unless they're not actually illegal...
u/ChevTecGroup · 2025-06-30 16:05:17 UTC · score 2
After working my high school years in a restaurant with many illegals. They definitely get SSNs. Whether they are actually theirs or not is debatable.
u/Namk49001 · 2025-06-30 16:10:18 UTC · score 3
Wouldn't you not be illegal if you have a valid SSN?
u/ChevTecGroup · 2025-06-30 16:38:48 UTC · score 3
They often used stolen SSNs to receive benefits. Including free housing and medical care. I found out because they were using them for employment.
They will also go to emergency rooms and rack up large bills that eventually get paid by the govt or absorbed by insurance holders. Costing everyone else for their being illegally in the country (aka committing a crime).
u/Namk49001 · 2025-06-30 16:54:23 UTC · score 5
Oh wow, building a system in place to keep close control over ssns would be nice then. Fraudulent use of SSNs and health care fraud are definitely the main crimes here, as being undocumented only carries a civil infraction, a similar crime class to exceeding the speed limit or jaywalking
u/cope413 · 2025-06-30 16:03:48 UTC · score 2
The CBO reported that illegal immigrants have cost over $16.2 Billion in Medicaid spending.
So take it up with the Congressional Budget Office and the House Budget Committee.
u/Namk49001 · 2025-06-30 16:09:31 UTC · score 5
Emergency care and hospital reimbursements would be my guess, or state funds (instead of federal) in states that allow it. AFAIK there is no way for them to get enrolled with a Medicaid plan, but that doesn't mean that there can't be expenses. I think the undocumented emergency/lifesaving procedures account got .2% of the expenditures in Medicaid itself