In Los Angeles. 190.000 legal residents could be cut off of AFDC. 93.000 legal residents will lose S.. 1. which is assistance for the aged. th blind. and the disabled. 250.000 legal reAdents will lose their food stamps. and 240.000 legal residents could lose their Medicaid. Los Angeles County could be faced with a cost shift of S236 million per year under this bill. And if the State of California opts to bar Medicaid coverage to legal immigrants. it could shift an additional $100 million per year to the County of Los Angeles. The conference report will place California at serious risk of a huge negative impact on health services. Again. for every action there is a reaction. Our public hospitals and our childrens hospitals that got reimbursed for these medical costs will no doubt have to downsize. shut down. cut back. and shift costs. And the bottom line is. if legal immigrants cannot receive Medicaid. all Californians and all Americans will be placed at greater risk of communicable diseases because these people will not be treated. Senator FEINSTEIN and I worked hard on an amendment which said this very simply. This is a massive change of law. Let us phase in the changes to our legal immigrants. Many of these legal immigrants came here escaping persecution. Many of them do not have sponsors to pick up the tab. They have no one else to turn to.
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