Speaker Mike Johnson was forced to bring out his very old, recycled, tattered and brused LIE to defend the government shutdown, by claiming Sen. Schumer’s CR proposal wants to fund healthcare for “illegal aliens,” which is completely false.
Medicaid, Medicare, and ACA subsidies are not available to any undocumented migrant, so Republicans then attacked treating migrants in emergency rooms.
When questioned on this, Speaker Johnson claimed it was a small subset of what he is talking. Again, another fat juicy lie.
ACA premiums EXPLODE in three months, Mike. And your party doesn’t want to fix that.
Q: Speaker Johnson, a lot of the free health care for illegal aliens that you’ve been talking about is care provided in emergency rooms, which are required by federal law to care for anybody, even if they can’t pay, even if they’re not a citizen.
Do you think that that law should be changed?
JOHNSON: No. You’re talking about EMTALA, which has been part of the law for most of my life. Emergency care is provided without question to anyone who comes in.
If you’re hemorrhaging and you show up in an emergency room, you get treated. That’s something we all support.
That’s a very good law. We’re in favor of it.
You’re cherry-picking a tiny subset of the issues.
Soon after making these comments, he punked himself with this idiotic analogy.
