This is the Mark Simone show on 710 W0R.

In for Mark today, here's Ken Rosado.

And every good morning to you.

Happy Thursday, the Thursday before Independence Day.

I don't know about you, feels like a Friday, right?

Because I think a lot of people are off already or are leaving early today and to enjoy the well-deserved a long weekend.

So the phone lines are open. 1-800-3217-10. Let's go right to the phones right now. Al-in-Yunkers, good morning to you. You're on W-O-R. Hey, Ken, good morning to you. I hope you have a nice 4th of July. Yeah, I just wanted to say with the big, beautiful bill, you know, there's pros and cons. The pros, of course, is that the president who's doing a fabulous job with securing the border, they'll continue to do that. But the

con, the big con is that so many people in this country count on Medicaid, and it's

slash Medicaid too much, and the premiums for private insurance will continue to go up.

So you're putting poor and destitute people, not even that, working class people in a bad

situation, and that's bad.

Yeah.

No, you're absolutely right, Al.

I mean, look, what you have with Medicaid,

not only do you have a larger percentage of people

who qualify for Medicaid,

and that happened since Obama,

so you have more and more millions on Medicaid.

You now have the requirement that illegals be put on Medicaid.

So if they apply for Medicaid here, your money and my money, it's going to finance people who are not even citizens who don't even contribute into the system.

And that bogs things down, especially in states like New York, New Jersey, the northeast liberal blue states where you spend so much money.

And the reason for that is you have a disproportionately high number of illegal migrants living

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