Thread: Illegals & health care: Deceit on Capitol Hill

Illegals & health care: Deceit on Capitol Hill

Pittsburgh Tribune Review
September 10, 2009 Thursday

A loophole in the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009 (HR 3200) will accommodate millions of illegal aliens and swallow billions of taxpayer dollars. This is unacceptable.

A new Center for Immigration Studies (cis.org) analysis notes that the bill says illegals wouldn't be eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance "affordability credits." But, it points out, there's nothing in the bill to enforce that.

Just as bad, House committees' rejection of requirements to verify the identities of applicants claiming U.S. birth and to check applicants' immigration status via the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, already used by more than 70 "means-tested" federal benefits programs, suggests Congress really isn't interested in safeguards.

Based on a 2007 estimate of 6.6 million uninsured illegals who could end up receiving affordability credits, CIS presents a worst-case scenario: All those illegals getting those credits would cost taxpayers $30.5 billion annually.

But whatever the number, the principle is the same: Illegals have no right to U.S. taxpayer dollars.

HR 3200's toothless "ban" on affordability credits, combined with rejection of safeguards, smacks of deliberate deceit by a Congress more interested in paying lip service to that principle than in abiding by it.

And that's one more reason why Americans rightly oppose this health care "reform" proposal.

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The American people smell something "fishy" too bad we don't have a web site to report gov't members up to an including the president so we could put their names on a list entitled " enemies of the American people".

They are all liars - every single one of them. Notice nobody is hearing a peep out of LaRaza, MALDEF or any other racist organization? Thats because they know illegal aliens will get coverage.