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Monday, Oct. 28, 2024

Has Kamala Harris supported providing government health care to undocumented immigrants?


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Vice President Kamala Harris proposed Medicare for All, covering all Americans in one government health plan, when she ran for president in 2019.

Asked if it would include undocumented immigrants, she said yes. Asked if she supported including people “in this country illegally,” Harris said she opposed “any policy that would deny … any human being from access to … public health, period.”

In 2024, Harris touted her work to ensure “Dreamers” – people brought to the U.S. without documentation as children – “have access to affordable health care.”

We didn’t find evidence to back Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance’s statement in Waukesha, Wisconsin, that Harris “promised to give Medicare to illegal aliens.”

Medicare is government health insurance mainly for people age 65 and over.

Harris’ campaign pointed to PolitiFact’s August 2024 report that Harris has not expressly said she supports free, taxpayer-supported health coverage for undocumented immigrants.

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