Florida passed a law requiring hospitals to publicize the costs of unpaid care for migrants, and the reports thus far show that the loss to the state’s hospitals is a massive $566 million just in 2024 — and taxpayers are picking up much of that loss.Senate Bill 1718, requiring healthcare providers to note if patients are legal citizens.
The state also reported that, in 2021, care for illegals cost the state about $312 million. But now it is even worse. According to the reporting website, the estimated costs to care for illegal aliens have totaled more than $566 million to date. Unsurprisingly, the federal government is also in the business of giving illegals free medical care, paid for courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers. Even as far back as 2018, the federal government was. And that was long before President Joe Biden threw the borders wide open and put billions more tax dollars to the task.on these expenditures for a brief time, but Biden opened the spigot wide once again when he took residence in the White House.