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By John Zmirak, The Stream, July 1, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

If you want to stop attracting what you don’t need, maybe turn off the magnet that attracts it. That’s the logic of President Donald Trump sticking to enforcing our labor and immigration laws with employers who operate sweatshop factories, restaurants, and farms. It applies even more urgently to healthcare.

If you’ve had the bad luck to visit a hospital emergency room recently, you’ll have noticed it’s full of foreigners. Many are here illegally. But thanks to Medicaid programs aimed at offering free health care to whoever shows up here, invited or not, our hospitals are crammed with people who never paid into the system. That’s why paying customers with insurance from their employers get charged $20 for a cotton swab and $50 for some gauze, racking up thousands of dollars (payable to their deductibles) for routine procedures.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has provisions aimed at cutting off money for this practice in states that force hospitals to treat non-life-threatening conditions, no questions asked. And the Senate parliamentarian, Harry Reid appointee Elizabeth MacDonough, has tossed out those key parts of the bill — with GOP Senate leaders hiding behind her skirts, pretending to be helpless before the decision of this unelected Deep State staffer. ….

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