REPORTER: Should ERs check immigration status before treating a dying patient? LEAVITT: That's probably not a question for me to answer. That's a question for healthcare professionals and legal experts to answer. (That's not a no!)

As a healthcare worker I'll answer for her then. The answer is No. Not only is it illegal. It's unethical. It's evil.

Reporter: So as a Christian woman who wears a big ol’ cross around her neck at every presser, you’re cool with people dying because of their immigration status? Leavitt: YesNo. Reporter: 🤨

So we already have a literal act of congress (EMTALA) that answers that question. It’s the same act Republicans are lying about with their “dems want healthcare for immigrants” bullshit. Reagan signed it into law. She’s either disingenuous or stupid or both.

That would cause so many deaths of American citizens. Imagine being rushed to the ER and dying because you don't have proof of citizenship on you.

Shouldn't a "compassionate Christian" woman be able to answer this question? Seems like a no brainer?

You see how FIGHTING puts them on the back foot and forces them to expose the insanity of their policy ideas? That's the entire point and we need to double down.

@JoeMyGod Fake Christian alert 📢

So we forget about Reagan signing EMTALA?? @PressSec @JDVance

But you have illegal immigrants using the emergency room for everything even when it's not an emergency. And we're picking up the tab. You do understand that healthcare costs are increasing because of illegal immigrants right?

Leavitt can't answer that because Trump still has no healthcare plan. He's tearing the systems down with nothing to replace them. It's insane if you think in terms of responsible governance. But if you think in terms of authoritarian strategy, it makes a grim kind of sense.🙄

Monstrous. MAGA won’t even say “treat the dying” without papers first. When cruelty becomes policy, what’s left of humanity?

@KregerPatricia Lies lies lies

Illegals should all be deported. But Democrats want to use them as pawns for their power-grabs. Look at how Aaron Rupar celebrates the idea of illegals dy*ng in an ER. He’s disgusting. I weep for his children being raised by such a deranged man. I’ll pray for them. 🙏🏼

A person who is practicing the true teachings of Christ does not give an answer like that.

What's the matter @PressSec, don't want to admit the Republican agenda is to allow undocumented immigrants to bleed out in ER parking lots while the cameras are rolling?

"Healthcare professional" here. Checking immigration status before treating a "dying" patient would go against every strand of DNA in an ER doctor's mind and body.

Well, I can tell this soulless Barbie, as a healthcare worker in the ER, we absolutely DO NOT WITHHOLD treatment from ANYONE due to the fact that they are HUMAN BEINGS in need of care! Apparently, she’s not aware of the Sixth Commandment. @PressSec

No Leavitt. That’s a question a Christian could answer easily.

No human with any semblance of a soul believes that a person's status as an illegal immigrant means you deserve to die. Because that is what The Republican party is pushing right now: the devaluing of human lives for the crime of existing where they think you shouldn't be.

She needs to step down. President Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) into law in 1986. The act requires hospitals that receive Medicare funds to provide emergency medical care to anyone who needs it, regardless of their citizenship

This! The stupids and Red hat people haters think ERs should refuse catastrophic care to people of color who are uninsured.

REPORTER: Should ERs treat dying patients? LEAVITT: It depends on their skin color.

The answer is no answer it's also a law you dumb Nazi bitch. Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | CMS (.gov)

It’s also under a completely different law signed in by Ronald Reagan in 1986 that people can’t be turned away from ER and any costs not covered shall be paid by the federal government, US citizens or non citizens who can’t afford emergency cover shall be covered.

They want our military to disregard their oath to our Constitution and doctors to disregard their Hippocratic oath. They have no scruples. They have no moral compass. They only believe in what makes them feel good at the moment.

The hospitals should get paid for illegals using their services after they treat them and then hand them over to ICE. Otherwise, their sanctuary city/state should pay the bill.

So, Leavitt as a Christian that you claim to be if a person doesn't have status on their person. Then the hospital should leave a person to die. That's True Christianity speaking, the correct answer is yes. Hospital have a duty to help all.

Holy Christ was an abjectly amoral person she is

How does an unconscious person in the ER prove their citizenship?

If you don't want them suffering you shouldn't have let them into the country in the first place. Reap what you sow. It's not up to the American taxpayer to subsidize the left's egregious errors.