If you wait long enough, the press will always admit conservatives were right all along. The catch is that they'll only do so when they think they can shift the narrative in their favor. That's exactly what's happening regarding illegal immigration and government-funded healthcare. 

For well over a decade, the official line has been to denounce anyone on the right who says illegal immigrants receive taxpayer-funded healthcare as pushers of "disinformation." Who could forget Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouting "you lie" during one of Barack Obama's State of the Union addresses, only to be denounced by every mainstream press outlet in existence? 

Well, his time of redemption has arrived because with the recent GOP reconciliation package cutting Medicaid funding to illegal immigrants, the press needs a reboot. 

Wait a second. I have been assured that illegal immigrants don't receive Medicaid and that the mere suggestion is a wild-eyed, crazy conspiracy theory. Was I lied to? The answer is yes, we were all lied to. 

Things changed for Maria and many others in recent years when a handful of Democrat-led states opened up their health insurance programs to low-income immigrants regardless of their legal status. Maria and her husband signed up the day the program began last year.

“It changed immensely, like from Earth to the heavens,” Maria said in Spanish of Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program. “Having the peace of mind of getting insurance leads me to getting sick less.”

At least seven states and the District of Columbia have offered coverage for immigrants since mostly 2020. But three of them have done an about-face, ending or limiting coverage for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who aren’t in the U.S. legally in California, Illinois and Minnesota.

You have to understand the game being played here. What those states have been doing is using matching federal funds to help prop up their state-level Medicaid systems. Through a provision of Obamacare, they've then expanded those systems to include illegal immigrants. All the while, they've maintained deniability by playing the semantic game of insisting they only have access to the state-level program, even though federal funds subsidize it. 

It's a very similar scheme to what Planned Parenthood has done. Whenever someone points out that the Hyde Amendment prohibits federal funds from going to abortions, the left-wing response is always that those funds are earmarked for other services. But money is fungible, and if you prop up one part of an entity, that allows them to manipulate the supposed guardrails. Whether any federal funding goes down on a spreadsheet as having "paid for this specific abortion" is irrelevant when the money helps keep the abortion mill open. 

But with the recent revisions to Medicaid funding passed as part of the reconciliation package, Democrat-led states simply can't make the math work and are being forced to end eligibility for illegal immigrants. Not that the math worked before. California, for example, was already facing a $12 billion deficit, an outcome Republicans warned would happen. Naturally, they were lambasted and ignored by the press at the time. 

ALSO SEE: CA Gov. Newsom Grabs Massive Bailout to Pay for Illegal Immigrant Healthcare

In short, what we are seeing here is a clown-nose-on, clown-nose-off routine of epic proportions. We've gone all the way from "illegal immigrants don't receive Medicaid" to "you are so cruel for ending Medicaid for illegal immigrants." The truth was always out there and obvious to anyone looking for it, but the press were more concerned with partisan games than being honest.  

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