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With that threatened there's a lot of worry here in California, especially about ERs being overrun by undocumented migrants seeking care and claiming it's an emergent issue (because where else can they go?).
Talking about the common case here, what happens is that the MCOs take money from the state to provide services based on enrollment data. The state takes the enrollment data, divides it up into "federally eligible" and "non-eligible" populations, then splits the costs of the eligible population with the federal government and pays the rest themselves. If more "non-eligible" people get services, the federal share of medicaid payments for MCOs doesn't go up.
Some of the other payments like disproportionate share support the facilities themselves, which undocumented immigrants indirectly benefit from by virtue of use. That's not a significant percentage of the overall though and not what anyone is talking about.
California’s $6 Billion Band-Aid: The Cost of Covering Illegal Immigrants
Last week it was announced that Governor Gavin Newsom is seeking a $3.44 billion loan from California’s general fund, as well as an immediate additional $2.8 billion in funding, to cover over-budget expenses incurred by our state’s Medi-Cal program.[1] Why is the program over budget and underfunded? There are a few factors that have gone into it, but the main reason comes down to the fact that the state expanded Medi-Cal to include coverage for illegal immigrants, and they underestimated how many of these participants would sign up to the program.[2]
https://www.thecaliforniaconversation.com/articles/californi...
To play language cop, "undocumented" would be more neutral...
Undocumented immigrant is far from a neutral term. They haven't just forgotten their documents, or oops! the government hasn't gotten around to documenting them. They are in the country when they aren't supposed to.
If you really hate the term "illegal immigrant", fine then call them unauthorized immigrants, but the "no person is illegal" slogan is just a motte and balley.
Again, motte and bally.
You also committed a logical fallacy:
> No person is illegal as borders are arbitrary
That's fallacious. All laws are arbitrary, as the GP pointed out, and you somehow failed to read:
> Speed limits are also arbitrary, enforced by other humans
So, it's factually true that borders are both necessary due to nature, and exist in the legal realm such that "illegal immigrants" is a factually correct label.
Just for reference:
8 U.S. Code § 1325 - Improper entry by alien
Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts
Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.
Words matter. Specificity matters. Dehumanizing propaganda matters.
A person who entered the country illegally is not incorrectly (even if roughly) abbreviated as an "illegal alien", since alien is a designation for "person of a foreign country" in this case. It's true this can be misused, but it's also true I don't think OP misused it or intended to, and even if it could be interpreted as a rough slight, I'd prefer we took the charitable stance, evaluated intent in context, and stayed out of semantics and focused on the issue (in this case whether such individuals receive funded health care benefits).
That's really it. If you disagree and think this was the time to call that out, that's ok, I just disagree and don't have anything more to say on it. Cheers.
You're only trying to say that it means "his humanity is against the law" to stigmatize people who care about law enforcement.
If the term "illegal migrant" offends them then that's a good thing, because you should be ashamed when you break the law.
When you call an illegal a "undocumented migrant" you're essentially downplaying the illegality of the act. It's just as bad as calling a rapist an "undocumented lover". You're de-stigmatizing breaking the law.