Stop paying health care for noncitizens

I will take the state budget "crisis" more seriously when we stop providing Medicaid coverage to noncitizens. Many of the people we have been covering are not poor. In fact, many of them qualify for frequent flier miles due to trips to their home countries.

Just because they keep their assets in foreign, rather than American, banks should not qualify them for a program meant to aid the poor. Can anyone explain what would be the down side of having people who choose to bring their elderly relatives to America provide for their health insurance? Where is the oversight of this program?

Bob Coleman

Arlington Heights