‘Grossly Immoral’: Doctors Torch Karoline Leavitt’s ER Immigration Status Answer
Lee Moran
Updated Fri, October 3, 2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparked outrage on Thursday after dodging a question about whether emergency rooms should check a patient’s immigration status before providing life-saving treatment to them.
Leavitt was asked directly by a reporter: “Should ERs check for immigration status before treating a dying patient?”
She replied, “That’s probably not a question for me to answer. I think that’s a question for health care professionals and legal experts to answer.”
Medical professionals swiftly condemned Leavitt’s evasive response.
CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner, a cardiologist and professor at George Washington University, called the idea of denying emergency care based on immigration status “grossly immoral.”
“Requiring ERs to check immigration status before providing emergency care to a dying patient would be grossly immoral, and no doctor I know would comply,” Reiner wrote on social media. “I certainly wouldn’t.”
Dr. Craig Spencer, an ER physician who famously survived Ebola, said he never asks about immigration status or insurance when treating patients in a critical condition:
“My job is to respond to the person in front of me, as if neither immigration nor insurance matters. Because in that moment, neither of those things matter. So tell me, what do Americans want me to do when the person dying before me is undocumented? Let them die? And what if they’re uninsured? Check that they’ve paid their monthly dues before I check their pulse?”
Spencer added, “We should stop making this an argument about providing emergency care to certain populations. And start asking how it reflects on us all if we’re truly willing to withhold care in those moments of emergency — just because of what a piece of paper might or might not say.”
Leavitt’s remarks came as Republicans continued attempting to shift blame for the ongoing government shutdown onto Democrats, falsely claiming it stems from Democratic efforts to provide healthcare access to undocumented immigrants.
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"The Most Anti-Christian Sh** I've Ever Heard" — JD Vance Responded To A Question About Healthcare For Undocumented Immigrants, And People Are Like "WTF"
Michaela Bramwell
Thu, October 2, 2025
This week, Vice President JD Vance held a White House press briefing, where he argued against undocumented immigrants receiving healthcare benefits.
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In a now-viral clip seen by over 5.2 million people, Vance told the press: "If you're an American citizen and you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed that wait times are especially large and very often somebody who's there in the emergency room waiting is an illegal alien."
"Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?" Vance continued.
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"The answer is a decision made by the Biden administration that the Trump administration, working with Congressional Republicans, undid. We turned off that money spigot to healthcare funding for illegal aliens. The Democrats, in their legislative text, want to turn it back on."
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People are calling it "fucking barbaric."
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As well as the "most anti Christian shit I've ever heard."
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"A child with a gunshot wound from a school shooting could be turned away at an emergency room under this reasoning," another person pointed out. "Never mind that it is illegal. It is unconscionable."
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This person questioned how Vance would know which patients were "illegal aliens" while looking around a hospital room? [check: https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/10/pinocchio-jd-dunce-easy-lies-for-maga.html]
Another person who claimed to work as an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Colorado called long emergency room wait times a "systemic issue" that has "NOTHING to do with illegal aliens."
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According to TEC Health, an emergency services company, long emergency room wait times are due to: fewer ER beds being available due to hospital closings/mergers, emergency department boarding, and hospitals being forced to share resources like labs for patient workups, which further delays results.
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