Emergency Medicaid spending is only .4% of Medicaid spending.

[applegrove]

Stop listening to GOP LIES

No undocumented immigrants are getting Obamacare, Medicare or Medicaid. Only a sliver of the spending on their healthcare comes through ERs, which are required by law to give emergency care to everyone.

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#Voices4Victory

— (@tmel1219.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T14:31:29.295Z

[Ms. Toad]

1. I don't think it is Medicaid that covers ER care for undocumented individuals. n/t

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2. Emergency room visits aren't free for anyone, are they? Whether citizen or not, you personally owe money for the care

if uncovered? If a person can't pay and is uncovered, is that when subsidies kick in?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants accounts for less than 1% of state spending: Study

Emergency spending amounted to about $9.63 per resident.

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants accounts for less than 1% of state spending: Study abcnews.go.com/Health/emerg...

— Steve Price (@slashersteve.bsky.social) 2025-10-09T17:55:41.036Z

Emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants made up only 0.4% of total Medicaid spending in 2022, a new study finds.

Researchers from Emory University; University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora; and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health looked at financial management report data for fiscal year 2022 from the Medicaid Budget and Expenditure System.

Of the 38 states that had data and Washington, D.C., the team found that emergency Medicaid spending for undocumented immigrants amounted to about $9.63 for every resident in those states, according to the research letter published Thursday morning in JAMA.

Supporters of the 2025 Budget Reconciliation law say the cuts to Medicaid will only affect care for groups whom they believe should not be receiving it to begin with, such as undocumented immigrants.

However, undocumented immigrants are unable to receive comprehensive Medicaid, Medicare and Marketplaces options under the Affordable Care Act under federal law, the researchers note.