Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance has warned that rural hospitals are closing down as they buckle under the exploding cost of caring for illegal migrants who cannot afford medical bills.
Vance recently spoke about the pressures hospitals are facing, and he was asked about the closure of several hospitals and clinics in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Vance said that rural hospitals are shutting down because they are “bearing the burden of providing health care to millions of people who shouldn’t be in this country to begin with.”
“Now you might not think that rural health care access is an immigration issue,” he said. “I guarantee it is an immigration issue because we’re bankrupting, bankrupting a lot of hospitals by forcing these hospitals to provide care for people who don’t have the legal right to be in our country,” the Ohio senator added.
“We’ve got to stop that, kick these illegal aliens out, focus on American citizens, and we will do a lot to make the business of rural health care much more affordable,” he said. All of this is due to Harris “open borders” policies.
The issue was s clearly highlighted in Florida when the state legislature put Senate Bill 1718 into effect, requiring hospitals to report the amount of unpaid services they deliver to illegal aliens.
The legislation quickly exposed how much Florida’s hospitals are losing by treating migrants who cannot pay their bills. Breitbart reported: With SB 1718 recording the costs to the Sunshine State in real-time, it is clear that the costs of caring for indigent illegal aliens are quickly adding up.
Via the state’s reporting website, MyFlorida.com, here are a few:
- Broward County has lost $43,056,022 by that time toward the unpaid medical expenses for illegal aliens.
- Duval had suffered a loss of $31,439, 143
- Hillsborough’s loss was at $58,822,134
- Orange stood at $58,328,521
- Miami-Dade had lost a whopping $231,804,144
The estimated costs to care for illegal aliens totaled more than $566 million just by April, according to the reporting website.
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