Multiple U.S. states are finally doing what every taxpayer in America has been screaming about for years — kicking illegal immigrants off subsidized healthcare programs. The gravy train is derailing, and the freeloaders are going to have to find a new ride.
Wait, I thought Democrats told us "no undocumented immigrants" were receiving government healthcare benefits? Funny how that talking point ages like milk in the sun.
Tennessee is leading the charge. The Tennessee General Assembly passed legislation requiring citizenship verification for healthcare programs, and the Tennessee Department of Health is already issuing notices. The disenrollment process for adult applicants aged 18-21 is underway, with a hard deadline of May 29 for those who can't prove they belong here. Even the Children's Special Services program, which covers ages birth to 21, is getting the audit.
And Tennessee isn't alone. Not by a long shot. North Carolina, Indiana, Louisiana, Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma are all on the same path — implementing or moving toward similar laws that say the same simple thing: if you're not here legally, American taxpayers aren't picking up your medical tab.
About time.
Here's the number that should make your blood boil. According to ZeroHedge, there were 1.4 million asylum seekers on healthcare rolls at the end of 2024. Let that sink in. 1.4 million people who showed up uninvited, and we handed them a healthcare card like it was a welcome gift basket.
The political left spent years insisting this wasn't happening. "No illegals actually access those subsidies," they claimed, with the smug confidence of people who never have to wait six hours in an emergency room. Meanwhile, hospitals across Tennessee — and across the country — were drowning in costs they couldn't recoup from patients who technically weren't supposed to be in the system.
This shift isn't happening in a vacuum. It's happening because the Trump administration has made it clear that the federal government is done playing pretend on immigration enforcement, and states are finally getting the message. When you've got 80% public support for the SAVE Act — which requires proof of citizenship to vote — it's not exactly a political risk to extend the same common-sense principle to healthcare.
We've been saying it for years: American taxpayer dollars should go to American citizens. That's not xenophobia. That's not cruelty. That's basic math and basic fairness.
Every dollar spent on healthcare for someone who broke the law to be here is a dollar not spent on a veteran who can't get an appointment, a senior citizen choosing between medication and groceries, or a working family one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.
Seven states and counting. The dominoes are falling, and the open-borders crowd is running out of places to hide their favorite scam. Common sense is making a comeback, one state at a time.
Your move, California.