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This bill — the Protect Medicaid Act — would prohibit federal money from being spent on administering state Medicaid benefits to non-citizens who break the law. If a state chooses to give Medicaid benefits to unauthorized immigrants, this bill would require that state to use its own money, rather than federal dollars, to pay for that benefit expansion.

This bill would also require the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) to review and report on:

How states that provide Medicaid services to unauthorized immigrants keep federal and state dollars separate;
Whether states providing health benefits to unauthorized immigrants use tactics, like provider taxes and intergovernmental transfers, to launder federal dollars to offset the cost of providing benefits to this population; and
Whether people in the U.S. illegally benefit from covered outpatient drugs purchased under the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program and the 340B program, and whether this impacts the prices American citizens pay.

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Should Federal Tax Dollars Not Fund Medicaid Benefits for Unauthorized Immigrants?