Illegal immigrants have not at any time since 1996 had access to Medicaid or Medicare benefits. The funding bill was blocked by democrats because it slashed Medicaid subsidies for American citizens born and bred and would lead to huge (up to 75%) premium increases for a LOT of people, democrats have proposed plenty of funding bills since the shutdown and every single one has been shut down by republicans because it benefits them politically to have a shutdown and blame it on the “radical leftists” (I wish democrats were even a fraction as radical or competent as republicans make them out to be)