proclamation, quote, cost associated with this care are passed on to the american people in the form of higher taxes, higher premiums and higher fees for medical services. uncompensated care costs the overall measure of reimbursed services hospitals give their patients, exceeded $35 billion in each of the last we 10 years amounting to $7 million on average for each hospital in the united states, driving hospitals into insolvency. the white house has $3 billion a year. there has been talk about this. it is a crushing amount but they don t specify that $35 billion is immigrants, they are talking about all reimbursed care. i suspect that means is here legally and other american citizens who don t have healthcare. as we talked about before that is the same argument people arguing for universal healthcare
and obamacare when president obama was in office made for having a broader healthcare coverage, to be sure you don t have these costs for people showing up in hospitals and emergency rooms without healthcare. eric: is it based in fact? people come to take advantage of it? indeed. that is a debatable fact between the two sides on this issue. eric: it is called draconian and we will see challenges in court. i think so and that is the precedent for a lot of things, they end up in court. it doesn t give a lot of time to people working in counselor offices around the world to come up with or study or figure out what the criteria will be. there job going forward if this proclamation goes into effect, to test or require people who are applying for those visas to show they can pay for it. eric: they show up and get a visa saying this is my health card. how does it work? the state department will set
crowd when he made the implication. julian castro was on new day this morning. here is what he said about last night. take a listen. i wouldn t do it differently. that was not a personal attack. this was about a disagreement over what the vice president said regarding health care policy. reporter: now, biden s deputy campaign manager was just on cnn as well. she categorized it as definitely a personal attack on vice president biden and then she went on to say, look, other candidates in the race have personally attacked biden and it hasn t gone well nor them, in their words. she highlighted kirsten gillibrand and eric swalwell. we did fact check that. castro was partially correct. here is the deal. he stands for medicare for all, which would automatically enroll all americans. biden s plan offers you can buy into the plan if you don t like your health care, don t have health care, but it does automatically enroll those who are not able to afford health care who would otherwise be
spoken and spoken many times that they want the border security. they want a president who is going to take care of the american public while at the same time being very welcoming to legal immigration. there is a big difference. keeping his promises seems to be working, hopefully the trend will continue. thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. hurricane dorian pounds in the carolina coast. we are tracking the latest. and healthcare is expected to be a hot topic at the democratic debate. who is pitching what? healthcare expert seth gibson is here to break it down for us.
we want people to be taken care of but we have a lot of citizens who don t have healthcare so the concern should be about our citizens first and then talk about how we reach out our hands. speaking of reaching out importing drugs from canada, this is another topic that is, recently, these candidates say yes, these candidates say now. in the current healthcare system is a lot of protectionism for pharmaceutical companies, this is something most americans should get on board with, what does it look like? there needs to be conversation about that but we need to talk about bringing in drugs from other countries. that can lower drug prices for people. in a free market system competition drives down costs. the idea behind healthcare in general. thank you for joining us. coming up, the time is half past the top of the hour. speaking of healthcare, the cost