Obamacare won't cover illegal immigrants? Yes it will, says Congressional..
Posted on Friday, August 28 @ 00:33:41 EDT
Topic: Barack Obama Campaign for President
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 Among the many claims being made durng the
August recess by Democrats from President Obama, Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid, D-NV, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, to the lowliest
back-bencher is that Obamacare absolutely, positively, cannot possibly
ever in a million, zillion years provide coverage to illegal
immigrants.
Just this past weekend during his regular Saturday address -
devoted to addressing what he called "false claims about reform" -
Obama said he wants "an honest debate" on health care reform, "not one
dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright distortions."
Topics: Illegal Immigration, President Obama, illegal immigrants, government-run health care system, H.R. 3200
August 26, 2009
Mark Tapscott
The Washington Examiner
In what he called the "first myth" being spread
by critics of his proposal for a government-run health care system,
Obama said they are wrong in claiming illegal immigrants will be
covered: "That is not true. Illegal immigrants would not be covered.
That idea has not even been on the table." Obama said.
Well, Mr. President, that idea must have been tucked under a stack
of background briefing papers over there in the corner of the table
because the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says this about H.R.
3200, the Obamacare bill approved just before the recess by the House
Energy and Commerce Committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA:
"Under H.R. 3200, a 'Health Insurance Exchange' would begin
operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public
option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on
noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United
States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange."
CRS also notes that the bill has no provision for requiring those
seeking coverage or services to provided proof of citizenship. So,
absent some major amendments to the legislation and a credible,
concrete enforcement effort in action, looks like the myth on this
issue is the one being spread by Obama, Reid, Pelosi, et. al.
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