Thread: House, Senate Health Reform Bills Exclude Illegal Aliens

House and Senate Health Reform Bills Prohibit Subsidies to Illegal Aliens

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
By Matt Cover

(CNSNews.com) – Both the House and Senate versions of President Obama’s health care reform plans contain passages explicitly excluding illegal immigrants from receiving federal money to purchase health insurance from either a private or government-run health plan.

Coming on the eve of a White House summit on immigration, the provisions would mean that some of the 46 million uninsured people living in the U.S. would be legally barred from benefiting from Obama’s government-led restructuring of the American healthcare system.

Obama, who pledged on Friday to tackle immigration reform, will host senators and congressmen at the White House Thursday to discuss possibilities for a reform bill.

The House bill, introduced simultaneously Friday in the House Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means committees, specifically prohibits illegal aliens from receiving government subsidies to purchase health insurance through a national insurance exchange.

“Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States,â€

ILLEGALS OR NOT ITS A BAD IDEA AND I FOR ONE AM SICK OF PAYING FOR DEADBEATS!!!

Does it include undocumented kids?[quote]The Senate bill does not even provide a skeleton outline of a public plan, saying only that the proposal is “under discussion.â€

Obama's answer to this language is to legalize everyone not currently legal. Then they will all be eligible to continue bleeding us dry.

ReggieMay wrote:

"Obama's answer to this language is to legalize everyone not currently legal. Then they will all be eligible to continue bleeding us dry."

I fear you are right. This seems to be the only legislation in which such language has been included. Thus, "they" tell us that we will "get" specific prohibitions against including illegal aliens "in return for" passing "comprehensive health reform" just as they are going to include E-verify enforcement only as a part of "comprehensive immigration reform". Small "carrots" for us in return for giant carrots for the OBL!

Our voices are getting stronger and louder.

NO on illegals, benefits to them and sanctuary cities.
Lower the current immigration numbers.
Support the American worker and OUR children.
Enforce our laws.
DUMP BIRTHRIGHT AMENDMENT.

They have to listen. I've told everyone I know about this site and numbersusa.com. They have to listen at some point. Giving up right now is not an option. Giving Up Is NEVER An Option On This Issue.

Your're right, Ll. I should have concluded my last reply with, "But they won't be allowed to get away with it!".

Polls show that increasing numbers of Americans, while supportive of Obama as a man, are skeptical of the Democrats' proposed sweeping national policies, and that includes a number of Democratic lawmakers.

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This is just like the stimilus bill that carried the E-verify amendments in it that were removed before it was voted on. I look at this as just a ruse to get people to support the robbing of America through a health care bill and then remove the very provisions that suckered us in....

Originally Posted by avenger

This is just like the stimilus bill that carried the E-verify amendments in it that were removed before it was voted on. I look at this as just a ruse to get people to support the robbing of America through a health care bill and then remove the very provisions that suckered us in....

Or they could just pass the law and allow city and state governments to just ignore it under the pretense that it is a federal law and should be enforced by the feds. Where have I heard that before?

Unlike the House, the Senate’s version of health reform establishes not one exchange but 50 separate insurance exchanges intended to be defined and administered by the individual states.

I believe this to be the circumvention tool.

However, it would be illegal for any of these state-run exchanges to take federal money to insure illegal aliens.

And this to be an out right lie. They'll say something like "It's impossible to know if IAs are receiving the benefits without the co-operation of the state.