From Fox News: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., repeatedly sidestepped a question about whether she believed illegal immigrants should receive taxpayer-funded healthcare during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night.
Ocasio-Cortez, who continues to generate buzz as a possible 2028 presidential contender or a potential primary challenger to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., appeared alongside Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to address questions about the ongoing government shutdown.
Jill Ireland, identified by CNN as a California Democrat who works in insurance, submitted a pre-taped question: “Do you think taxpayers should be paying for the medical care of immigrants who are in the country illegally?”
Ocasio-Cortez responded by calling out what she described as a “common lie” from Republicans who accuse Democrats of shutting down the government to provide free healthcare to illegal immigrants.
Dodging the question, AOC stammered, “We already know that it’s federal law and federal statute that undocumented people cannot be covered by the [Affordable Care Act], they cannot be covered by Medicaid, they cannot be covered by Medicare. Period. That is the law of the land. There are plenty of federal laws on the books now.”
But then, she indicated that she DOES support free healthcare for illegal aliens, saying, “The truth of the matter is we have a federal law, as it should be, that any person who walks into a hospital in desperate need of medical attention receives that medical attention regardless of their insurance status, and regardless of who they are.”
“And I don’t know about you, but me as a human being, I don’t want to live in a world where if a human being is struck by a car or is getting rushed into a hospital, that the people in the ER surgical room are asking for your insurance information or asking for documents before they save your life,” she added.
Collins pushed back on the Democrat socialist, asking if she wanted to change the law to allow taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens.
“I believe, personally, that healthcare is a human right. I believe that every person should be able to go to the doctor. But I believe that right now, federal law is the federal law,” AOC replied, again dodging the actual question.
WATCH the full exchange below:
AOC gets the question on whether taxpayers should pay for healthcare for illegal aliens, dodges the question by advocating for single-payer. Bernie goes back to yelling about the billionaires pic.twitter.com/e8OxmkUyzE
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 16, 2025
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