De Blasio rolls out ‘free’ health care plan for everyone, including illegal immigrants

By Molly Prince

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced he will be launching a plan to guarantee health care coverage for all residents, which includes illegal immigrants living in the city.

Bill de Blasio

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio

“Health care is a human right. In this city we’re going to make that a reality,” de Blasio said during a press conference Tuesday. “From this moment on, in New York City, everyone is guaranteed the right to health care. Everyone.”

De Blasio explained a day earlier the plan, referred to as NYC Care, will reach nearly 600,000 New Yorkers and cost taxpayers at least $100 million. The healthcare-for-all plan is not limited to American citizens and would also include individuals who cannot afford their existing plans.

NYC Care is expected to first launch in the Bronx over the summer and will be fully implemented throughout the city by 2021, according to Bloomberg.

The progressive mayor said he believes NYC Care will act as a springboard for the rest of the country to follow suit and ultimately implement a nationwide universal health care program.

“You might say ‘is this something that ideally should be handled in Washington D.C. or in Albany?’ Yes, it should,” De Blasio said. “Let me just make that clear from the outset. The ultimate solution is single-payer health insurance for this whole country or Medicare for all. That’s the ideal, that’s what we need.”

NYC Care was revealed shortly after newly elected Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a sweeping statewide health care initiative that would also cover illegal immigrants.

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6 thoughts on “De Blasio rolls out ‘free’ health care plan for everyone, including illegal immigrants

  1. They need someone to help them with the math on this one. According to my calculations, $100 million divided among 600,000 people is $167 per person. Am I wrong?

    But the article does say “at least $100 million”. Maybe Gruber is helping with this one and they are again relying on the stupidity of the american people.

  2. Progressive program: Invite you to their party, make attendance mandatory, make you pay for it, then invite anyone else in for free even if they aren’t in this country legally – and make you pay for them, too. Will DeBlasio’s plan for motivating the productive sector to depart from Manhattan succeed? I do believe I’ve read that it’s working already!

  3. New Yorkers voted this Liberal fool into Office, New Yorkers need to reel this Idiot in !!

    But wait, they also have Cuomo, Schumer, Gillibrand….. Nah, they get what these deserve.

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