New York health care law could potentially spend over $500M on illegal immigrants
By Staff Reporter | Feb 25, 2019 09:44 AM EST
New York legislators are pushing a new law to have the cash-strapped state spend more than $500 million to provide virtually free, taxpayer-financed health care to more than 400,000 adult illegal immigrants.
The just-introduced legislation by state Sen. Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) and Assemblyman Richard Gottfried (D-Manhattan) would require Albany to cough up at least $532 million to allow undocumented adult residents to enroll in the state's "Essential" or "Basic" public health-insurance plan.