A video is circulating social media that shows Kamala Harris talking to Jake Tapper. He asked her a question about the Medicare for All program and if people in America illegally should get healthcare. Some social media users may have spun it out of context, but it also became a bit confusing with the way she answered and how little time they spent talking about it. You can decide on how to feel once you see her response below or in the video above. She answered, but they didn't say too much else on it in general. Technically, all people were already entitled to healthcare in emergency rooms anyway - and that dates back to 1986. The Politifact article said the following:
...in response to a question about whether Medicare for All should apply to people in the country illegally, she said, "I am opposed to any policy that would deny in our country any human being from access to public safety, public education, or public health, period." Tapper didn’t ask anything else about this.
Medicare for All is a system, promoted by some Democrats, in which all Americans would get their health insurance from the government program modeled after the one that currently covers people 65 and older and people with disabilities.
Under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which became law in 1986, all patients regardless of citizenship or immigration status are already entitled to treatment in hospital emergency rooms.
