Half the 600,000 residents aided by NYC Care are undocumented immigrants

NYC Care: Comprehensive health care plan has its skeptics

• Half the 600,000 residents aided by NYC Care are undocumented immigrants

"The comprehensive health care plan unveiled by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio...
..."This is the city paying for direct comprehensive care (not just ERs) for people who can’t afford it, or can’t get comprehensive Medicaid - including 300,000 undocumented New Yorkers," Eric Phillips, spokesman for de Blasio, boasted on Twitter.
State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican representing parts of Brooklyn and Staten Island, criticized the proposal as an example of de Blasio using city coffers "like his personal ATM."
"How about instead of giving free health care to 300,000 citizens of other countries, you lower property taxes for our senior citizens who are being forced to sell the homes they’ve lived in for decades because they can’t afford to pay your 44 percent increase in property taxes?" she said..."
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