Reading that report, I just kept snickering.
Jeezus Keeriest on a cracker!

BTW - that bold part? That is 20 TIMES the number of undocumented.

Total health care spending in Florida per year is more than $214,408,000,000, State and Private. This is more meaningful number on the burden of unpaid health care that the state is pays, IMHO.

This is a "Florida estimate." The same state that lied repeatedly about COVID. Still does to this day.
Most importantly all the State of Florida did with this number is take the total unpaid amount and divide the tally of the undocumented into it. It didn't make any effort to include all those that are Florida residents that didn't pay. It assumes everyone that was undocumented is everyone that didn't pay. That is simply not true. There are plenty of people that are US Citizens that reside in Florida that do not pay. For Florida 8.7% of the population of Florida does not pay or has ongoing medical debt they can't pay. This is not surprising given that 30% of people in Florida are below twice the poverty rate. BTW 8.7% comes to 1,870,000 people. That is a much higher number than the reported 93,844 undocumented. That should be a HUGE red flag on this "reporting."

The budget of the AHCA is irrelevant and Snoofy is correct in using the 77.3 billion number (from the article). The number provided by OneIronNut is a meaningless sum. This point is further verified by the headline and information in the article and is how the number $659.9M is used.

#47 -don't be distracted by meaningless averages being used to cover for the ultra rich. Pay attention. Think.

In 2007, Jeff Bezos, then a multibillionaire and now the world's richest man, did not pay a penny in federal income taxes. He achieved the feat again in 2011. In 2018, Tesla founder Elon Musk, the second-richest person in the world, also paid no federal income taxes.

ProPublica has obtained a vast trove of Internal Revenue Service data on the tax returns of thousands of the nation's wealthiest people, covering more than 15 years. The data provides an unprecedented look inside the financial lives of America's titans, including Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and Mark Zuckerberg. It shows not just their income and taxes, but also their investments, stock trades, gambling winnings and even the results of audits.

Taken together, it demolishes the cornerstone myth of the American tax system: that everyone pays their fair share and the richest Americans pay the most. The IRS records show that the wealthiest can " perfectly legally " pay income taxes that are only a tiny fraction of the hundreds of millions, if not billions, their fortunes grow each year.

The rich are already taxed. Why not tax those who aren't being taxed?

LMAO! That's who we're talking about taxing!

That's IronNut for ya.

I reiterated Zed's correct observation in #32.
You comprehend what you comprehend.
I don't expect anything else.

#8 - Musk is panicked. His stock is in the gutter. He even has tRump selling fElon's Teslas on the White House grounds (absolutely illegal). tRump - the same moron that used to hate electric vehicles. The benefit of having tRump as pRezident is it keeps Vance from doing even more harm. That man is evil.

#42 - I love that! That got an audible laugh out of me!

That's his only hope for acceptance.

You gonna be upset if people chant "Hang JD Vance"?

Itchy - you lost this battle, now you're just a torso on the ground with no arms or legs trying to be taken seriously. It isn't happening.

Mark Kelly is an American hero, a patriot in the true sense of the word.

Your point being????

Obvious for the non-obtuse.

"Ontario suspends 25% electricity surcharge for US customers after Trump ups aluminum, steel tariff "

In a joint statement from Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the two leaders said they had a "productive conversation about the economic relationship between the United States and Canada."

"In response, Ontario agreed to suspend its 25 percent surcharge on exports of electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota," Ford and Lutnick said.

That's physics, it's not a saying.

Good lord, you are painful.

Thanks Gal, for #24.

Um Musk built and sold PayPal, built Tesla,

You really shoud get his biography right if you're going to try and tell people about it.

"The racial makeup of Washington, DC is 40.9% Black or African American, 38.8% White, and 12% Hispanic or Latino."

#7 - and thanks for raising your hand to provide an example of being one of those that doesn't have a clue.

Sorry to hear that, Danforth.

I just checked on births - and 41% of all births in the United States are covered by Medicaid.

He certainly looked like an imbecile when he tried to explain how SS is a Ponzi scheme to Joe Rogan.

That was really stupid. Almost as stupid was hsi charaterization of undocumented workers and social security:

"The waste and fraud in entitlement spending ... that's the big one to eliminate, that's the sort of half trillion, maybe six or seven hundred billion a year..."
"That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants, by essentially paying them to come here, and they're turning them into voters. This is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation," he added, unsubtly echoing a white nationalist, Great Replacement theory talking point while Larry Kudlow nodded along. "If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave. And they will lose voters."

Fcck this country.

#34 - that's projection and getting out ahead of what they've done to us. They are systematically destroying our economy and our infrastructure. True to form they will never, ever take responsibility for what they've done.

Who would ever associate with such degenerate moral reprobates?