• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      Yeah they’ve run with this forever, just… strongly implying that somehow, people who aren’t citizens and don’t have SSNs somehow get Medicare/Medicaid.

      You can’t, its fraud if you steal someone’s identity to do that, and that barely ever happens compared to how often just some Byzantine morass of paperwork results in an over or underpayment for a legitimate person… and when those exceptionally rare fraud cases did get caught, off to jail for that person…

      But, brown people bad, I guess.

      I think this may be the first time they’ve actually tried to… point at something and prove that Dems are actually pushing for laws that would do that, but I have also lost track.

      I would say this whole line of logic has always struck me as odd… as… I am on Medicare, and … presumably so are millions of poor Republicans… and presumably they, you know, applied, which requires an SSN…

      But then I remember I’m not a rabid racist and I can actually read, so it starts to make some sense as to how these people can be this monumentally stupid.