Democrats Have Been Trying To Cover Up One The Biggest Healthcare Scams Ever

History is rife with the names of great men who, through no fault of their own, were imprisoned at one point or another. And during their incarceration, instead of wasting their time, they produced meaningful works of literature.

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote “The History of the World” while imprisoned in the Tower of London. Sir Thomas More wrote “A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation” during his stint in the same prison. John Bunyan wrote “The Pilgrim’s Progress” from jail. The Apostle Paul wrote several epistles while under house arrest.

If there’s a lesson we can draw from all of these examples, it would seem to be that, even when confronted with a major disruption to their day-to-day life, productive and creative people still find a way to make use of their time. They don’t wallow in self-pity and narcissism. Instead, they adapt to their new situation. They use their intellect in creative ways. And they keep going.

Take a group of motivated and smart individuals, hand them a setback, and they’ll overcome it — and even use it to their advantage. Of course, that raises the obvious question: What happens in the opposite scenario?

What happens when you take an extremely lazy and unintelligent group of people and hand them a minor setback to their day-to-day lives? How do monumentally untalented and self-absorbed individuals react when their mindless routine is disrupted, even for a moment? If they don’t produce “The Pilgrim’s Progress,” what do they produce, exactly?

Unfortunately, for any sociology professors out there who were hoping to run this experiment, we now have the definitive answer to that question.

That’s because, as you probably haven’t noticed in any way, hundreds of thousands of federal government workers have been furloughed since October 1, as part of the ongoing government shutdown. And during this furlough, thousands of federal government workers have been keeping themselves busy — not by producing any great work of literature, but by producing an overwhelming number of vapid TikToks that have been polluting the internet for more than a week at this point.

They’re eating popsicles. They’re miming rap lyrics. They’re taking videos of themselves looking at mirrors. And they want the world to know it, for some reason:

If you’re tempted to excuse any of this inane behavior — maybe you’re inclined to say these people can do whatever they want on their own time — you should know that some federal government workers are indeed being told they need to commute to the office during the shutdown.

And rest assured: Those workers are uploading TikToks too:

What makes the videos of these “public servants” even more enraging than they might seem — as if that’s possible — is that the government shutdown isn’t really about any of these people. Yes, they’re glorified welfare recipients with fake jobs, and we shouldn’t have to pay their salaries. But the government shutdown is actually about a separate set of taxpayer handouts.

Specifically, Democrats want to renew federal subsidies for Obamacare plans. And they want to reverse Medicaid cuts that Donald Trump just signed into law — including cuts that would impose new work requirements, and kick so-called “asylum seekers” off the program.

Last week, as you might remember, I indicated that I didn’t really want to talk about the government shutdown. And there was a reason for that. When you do this job long enough, you begin to realize that government shutdowns are not, in fact, a big deal. For one thing, as we just established, 80% of government workers are useless. No one cares if they’re working or not. Secondly, in pretty much every case, the government shutdown gets resolved, and nothing really changes. Usually, whatever the dispute is about, they kick the can down the road.

But in this case, it’s worth taking a moment to talk about what’s happening — if only because of the sheer volume of lying that we’re all being subjected to. 

Here’s just one example, from CBS’s “Face the Nation”:

Johnson: They want to fund healthcare for illegal aliens. It is in their bill.

Brennan: I have looked at that text. It doesn’t explicitly say what you are indicating

Johnson: Yes, it does pic.twitter.com/fnrGvBdPPR

— Acyn (@Acyn) October 5, 2025

Credit: @Acyn

The anchorwoman tries to fact-check him, but she doesn’t actually make a point. He says that Democrats want to repeal the new Medicaid restrictions that Donald Trump signed into law earlier this year, which would have the effect of allowing more illegals to access the program. She just says he’s wrong and shakes her head a few times.

Rolling Stone attempted a similar fact-check after Mike Johnson’s appearance. Here’s the key line from their article.

It’s important to note that undocumented immigrants broadly do not qualify for Medicaid, Affordable Care Act subsidies, or other federally-funded health care coverage.

The word “broadly” is obviously doing a lot of work there. Whenever you see a hedge word like that — where they can’t say something in a clear, definitive way — then they’re lying. In reality, illegal immigrants aren’t allowed to access Medicaid in the same way that you aren’t allowed to go through a stop sign without coming to a complete stop. It’s a restriction that, in practice, is basically meaningless. Illegal aliens, as a matter of objective, observable fact, are allowed to enroll in Medicaid. And I’m not just talking about emergency coverage.

Go to the websites of states like New York, Massachusetts, California, Colorado, North Carolina, and Oregon, and you’ll often find explicit statements that Medicaid coverage is provided for illegals, including for primary care.

It’s not exactly a well-kept secret. New York offers “Managed Medicaid Care plans” for illegals. Illegals in Massachusetts are entitled to “full-scope Massachusetts Medicaid coverage.”

In Illinois, even the paper of record admits what’s going on here. They just do it in a somewhat roundabout way.

Here’s a headline from the Chicago Tribune, for example.

Credit: @chicagotribune/X.com

Put two-and-two together, and it’s not hard to conclude that, indeed, so-called “immigrants without legal status” were indeed receiving Medicaid benefits.

The Denver Post admits that the same thing is happening in Colorado. Here’s one of their recent headlines:

Colorado and 19 other states sued the federal government Tuesday to prevent Medicaid data from being used for immigration enforcement.

Well, that’s an interesting development. How could “Medicaid data” be used for “immigration enforcement?” If illegal aliens have nothing to do with Medicaid, because they can’t access it, then you’d think ICE would have no use for “Medicaid data.” But of course, illegal aliens are indeed receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare. And Democrats are doing everything they can — including filing lawsuits — to prevent this fraud from being exposed and stopped.

On the Democrat side, they’ll often claim that only state funds are being used to fund these programs. They’ll say that, even though these are “Medicaid” programs, only state-level taxpayers are footing the bill. First of all, even if that were true, it would still be an outrage. No taxpayer should be forced to fund healthcare for people who have no right to be in this country. But on top of that, this claim is simply a lie. Federal funds are used in these programs all the time — often as part of a shell game using federal tax revenue, which is carefully engineered to obscure the truth.

Missouri Congressman Eric Burlison recently posted a video of how this scam works in California, and it’s worth watching because he lays out the details pretty clearly for such a complicated topic. Watch:

5. California’s Medicaid shell game

CA uses a loophole to inflate provider payments, draw down more federal funds, then diverts the money – including ~$4 billion for illegal aliens on Medicaid. pic.twitter.com/knJRpyIVqt

— Rep. Eric Burlison (@RepEricBurlison) May 16, 2025

Credit: @RepEricBurlison/X.com

Altogether, by conservative estimates, there are roughly 1.5 million illegal aliens who are currently receiving Medicaid benefits, along with nearly 5 million able-bodied individuals who receive Medicaid benefits but choose not to work.

Even in relatively small states like Connecticut, the cost is astronomical. Here’s a recent assessment from CT Insider, for example:

At least $80 million in state funds have been used to pay for health care for children and expectant and postpartum mothers without legal immigration status since this coverage became available through Connecticut’s Medicaid program two years ago.

Meanwhile, in Texas, as you might expect, the numbers are even higher.

As you can see, in just four months — from November of 2024 to February of 2025 — more than 100,000 patients in Texas hospitals admitted that they weren’t in the country legally. That includes 23,000 inpatient discharges and 85,000 emergency department visits. At the same time, more than 600,000 patients refused to provide their immigration status. And again, the vast majority of people who declined to answer were receiving emergency care — so we can assume, of course, that the vast majority of those 600,000 patients are also illegal aliens.

According to official estimates from the state, in total, illegal aliens cost Texas hospitals more than $120 million per month. And again, the important thing to consider here isn’t simply the cost, which is obviously too high. It’s also important to recognize that, even if the illegal aliens were somehow paying for their own care — which they’re not — they’re still creating a massive drain on our healthcare system. They’re making it harder for American citizens to get the care they need. They’re filling up emergency rooms and doctors’ offices, at a time when doctors are in short supply. By itself, that’s more than enough reason to deny illegals any access to Medicaid, or to our healthcare system in general. When the system is collapsing, the absolute last thing we can do, or should do, is allow the entire world to access it, and ultimately destroy it.

Even some Democratic institutions are finally coming around to this realization. The Washington Post editorial board, of all places, just published an editorial that supports Republicans’ position on the Obamacare-related aspects of the government shutdown.

This is an amazing sentence to see in a @wapo editorial. I am truly impressed. pic.twitter.com/l9E82bMl0X

— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) October 6, 2025

Credit: @conncarroll/X.com

Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the COVID-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. … This will cost $350 billion over the next decade. … The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

Well, it’s a belated reaction. It’s about 15 years too late, in fact. But it’s something. It’s an indication that everyone — even the deranged partisans who read the Washington Post — understands that Democrats have no credibility whatsoever when it comes to healthcare, which was their primary policy objective for the 8 years of Barack Obama’s presidency. Their signature issue has been a complete debacle.

It’s this recent history that we should keep in mind when they try to “fact-check” claims that illegal aliens are receiving federal healthcare benefits. Before Obamacare, if you were a healthy young person, you didn’t have to subsidize anyone else’s insurance. You didn’t have to purchase comprehensive coverage you didn’t need. You could pay out-of-pocket for most visits, and keep coverage for the most serious, life-threatening issues, like cancer. The system that replaced this arrangement was a disastrous deal for most Americans. And it became a completely unworkable, catastrophic deal when Americans were forced to subsidize the healthcare plans of millions of foreign nationals, on top of their fellow citizens.

As a result, this government shutdown should continue indefinitely until we have assurances that no illegal aliens will receive any taxpayer-funded healthcare. Yes, a long shutdown means that we’ll have to endure thousands more insufferable TikTok videos from furloughed federal bureaucrats. But it also means we’ll eventually have a functioning healthcare system. It means we’ll save hundreds of millions of dollars every month. And that’s a trade that, unless you’re an illegal alien or a federal government worker, is a trade we should take every single time.