AOC dodges a question she knows Americans are watching

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night. Ocasio-Cortez, who continues to generate buzz as a possible 2028 presidential contender or a potential primary challenger to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to address questions about the ongoing government shutdown. Jill Ireland, identified by CNN as a California Democrat who works in insurance, submitted a pre-taped question: "Do you think taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the country illegally?"

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I mean, of course she believes Americans should be paying for the healthcare of everyone else except Americans. But she cant say that. She knows she wouldn't get elected.

She is scum.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-10-16 12:20 PM | Reply

I mean, of course she believes Americans should be paying for the healthcare of everyone else except Americans. But she cant say that. She knows she wouldn't get elected.
She is scum.

#1 | Posted by boaz

"We already know that it's federal law and federal statute that undocumented people cannot be covered by the [Affordable Care Act], they cannot be covered by Medicaid, they cannot be covered by Medicare. Period. That is the law of the land. There are plenty of federal laws on the books now," Ocasio-Cortez said.

That's called an answer. I know you don't understand what an Answer is because you have never heard one from MAGA. But that's what they look like.

Let me summarize for your tiny little MAGAt brain:

Question: "Do you think taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the country illegally?"
Answer: "No. That's illegal."

But if she doesn't want to cover Americans, why is the government shut down by people like her to stop Trump and MAGAts from taking healthcare from Americans?

Boaz, you're an idiot. You need to accept this. And never leave your home, or vote, or even talk again.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-16 12:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I mean, of course she believes Americans should be paying for the healthcare of everyone else except Americans. But she cant say that.

But you can.

Because you are a liar. Or an idiot. Or both.

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-16 12:30 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We're bankrolling Argentina, but our health care system is like 36th in the world. We're a ridiculous people.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-16 12:34 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#2,

If you think that's an answer, you are an idiot. And there have been verified cases of American tax dollars to pay for illegal immigrant healthcare and not just emergency room visits.

#5 | Posted by boaz at 2025-10-16 12:37 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

"We're bankrolling Argentina"

It's the Bessent & Buddies Bailout.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-16 12:37 PM | Reply

"there have been verified cases of American tax dollars to pay for illegal immigrant healthcare"

On purpose, or by accident?

And are you admitting it's not status quo, as Republicans have been claiming?

#7 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-16 12:38 PM | Reply

The "Squad" member then took aim at Vice President JD Vance, who she accused of "trafficking this other misconception" regarding the claim that emergency Medicaid programs provide healthcare for illegal immigrants, calling it "whole cloth storytelling." from the article

also

1. Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid or CHIP, and only some lawfully present immigrants qualify subject to eligibility restrictions.

3. Emergency Medicaid spending makes up less than 1% of total Medicaid spending.

www.kff.org

"Extending enhanced Marketplace premium tax credits would not benefit undocumented immigrants.

Enhancements to the tax credits available to purchase Marketplace plans expires this year, unless Congress takes action, and will result in 4.2 million more uninsured people based on an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Premium tax credits have always been available only to U.S. citizens and immigrants who are lawfully present."

ccf.georgetown.edu

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-16 12:40 PM | Reply

Don't get me started on what our tax dollars are paying Israel to do.

They have better healthcare than we do as well. Pretty much everyone does.

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-16 12:48 PM | Reply

And we Americans work harder and longer than anyone else in the modern world.

Our tax dollars should be paying for OUR healthcare first.

#10 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-16 12:49 PM | Reply

Our tax dollars should be paying for OUR healthcare first.

Of course, but that's also a loaded question.

#11 | Posted by boaz at 2025-10-16 01:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

Loaded how?

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-10-16 01:37 PM | Reply

@5 ... And there have been verified cases ...

Since your current trolling alias seems to be aware of those cases, got links?

Also, if those cases exist, to what extent are they present?

#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 01:50 PM | Reply

@#8 ... the claim that emergency Medicaid programs provide healthcare for illegal immigrants, ...

House speaker backs emergency care law as GOP targets immigrant medical treatment in shutdown fight (October 5, 2025)
www.statnews.com

... Mike Johnson calls EMTALA 'a very good law'

His remarks capped off more than a week of comments from Republican politicians related to the idea of undocumented immigrants receiving medical care. Republicans claim that the Democrats' government-funding bill would spend hundreds of billions of dollars providing "free health care for illegals." It's one of Republicans' most consistent arguments in the government shutdown debate.

"Democrats are threatening to shut down the entire government because they want to give hundreds of billions of dollars of health care benefits to illegal aliens," Vice President JD Vance said on Sept. 28, before the shutdown started, on Fox News Sunday. ...

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 01:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
en.wikipedia.org

... The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA)[1] is an act of the United States Congress, passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA).

It requires hospital emergency departments that accept payments from Medicare to provide an appropriate medical screening examination (MSE) for anyone seeking treatment for a medical condition regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay.[1] ...

#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-10-16 01:57 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

She is scum.

#1 | Posted by boaz

Says the biggest scumbag here.

#16 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-16 02:47 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Per usual, AOC triggers MAGAt manbabies who get their sweaty knockers in a twist over her every word and breath.
And what do they do about the fascist takeover of our government?
The shredding of constitutional norms?
Nada, zip, zilch, not a peep.
Like I said, sweaty knickered, easily triggered (esp. by the wimunfolk) manbabies.

#17 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-16 03:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#16 | Posted by jpw

Abso-fuggin-lutely.

#18 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-10-16 06:21 PM | Reply

#5 | Posted by boaz

This boy is full of feces.

#19 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-10-16 06:23 PM | Reply

Always has been.

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-10-16 06:41 PM | Reply