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>> well, we, here in texas, we have the tp30 law, if an illegal alien or anyone undocumented from out of the united states comes and has their baby, they can apply for the tp30 law and get an emergency medicaid and medicaid pays for their bill. you're right, once they're born, they're here, and no one can kick them out. the extreme, i have had patients who wait in mexico, start labor, they wait until they're very far along in their labor, then they swim across the river and have their baby on the bank. then the border patrol comes and finds them, the lady with a baby, newborn, still stuck on t...

Care, the best pediatricians, the best neonatologists to cover them f they decide they're not going to apply for the tp30, they leave and nobody gets paid. another thing, is that apparently, if they apply for medicaid for the emergency medicaid, that means that they will not become a citizen ever, unless they pay back everything. that's an incentive for them to pick up and leave. >> laura: i got it. by the way, doctor, i have to say, i feel like you're helping us diagnose this problem. you are in effect treating the lack of knowledge, the ignorance, on the part of so many of us. you just expla...

The american taxpayers. medicaid supposed to be used for truly indigent people. veterans and others who get v.a. help. but indigent american people. this is a scandal. you just served a really important purpose. >> that's another program, the chips program, is at high risk. >> laura: the child healthcare. >> the chips program became a program where undocumented people would come across and stay here and get prenatal care paid for them. and they would get their prenatal care through the nine months, to have their baby, switch over and get a tp30, the delivery paid by medicaid. whereas the chips...

>> well, we, here in texas, we have the tp30 law, if an illegal alien or anyone undocumented from out of the united states comes and has their baby, they can apply for the tp30 law and get an emergency medicaid and medicaid pays for their bill. you're right, once they're born, they're here, and no one can kick them out. the extreme, i have had patients who wait in mexico, start labor, they wait until they're very far along in their labor, then they swim across the river and have their baby on the bank. then the border patrol comes and finds them, the lady with a baby, newborn, still stuck on t...

Care, the best pediatricians, the best neonatologists to cover them f they decide they're not going to apply for the tp30, they leave and nobody gets paid. another thing, is that apparently, if they apply for medicaid for the emergency medicaid, that means that they will not become a citizen ever, unless they pay back everything. that's an incentive for them to pick up and leave. >> laura: i got it. by the way, doctor, i have to say, i feel like you're helping us diagnose this problem. you are in effect treating the lack of knowledge, the ignorance, on the part of so many of us. you just expla...