Thread: Oh to be an illegal alien under Obamacare...

November 22, 2009
Oh to be an illegal alien under Obamacare...
Rick Moran

Keith Hennesseycalls this "unfair." The gentleman has a gift for understatement:

Under Leader Reid's amendment, in the year 2019 about 16 million U.S. citizens would be uninsured and be forced to pay a penalty tax of almost $800 per year. About eight million illegal aliens would be uninsured and would owe no penalty tax. Both groups would get their health care through a combination of out-of-pocket spending and use of uncompensated care in emergency rooms and free health clinics.

This seems unfair.

The entire premise of forcing people to buy insurance is that it will cut costs for all of us because those who do not have insurance are a drain on the system when they need health services.

But if 11 million illegal aliens can game the system and still not pay the fine, what does that do to costs? The doctors and hospitals will be in an awful position since they will be unable to pass on the cost of treating illegals to Uncle Sam. And if they pass them on to insurance companies, our premiums will go up even more relative to the government option.

How generous of our Democratic friends that they have such a big heart to pay for the medical care of illegals. If they had half that sympathy for the rest of us, they would recognize the inherent unfairness in this situation and force illegals to pay up.

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We must work to nullify this health care bill if it passes.

PS
Didn't piglosi and her criminal elites say illegals would not be covered? sarcasm. They ALL lie.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6896 ... ublic-plan Go to link for entire article

Some states already poised to opt out of government-run public health plan
By Tony Romm - 11/21/09 02:02 PM ET
At least 11 states intend to forge ahead in the coming months with bills and ballot questions designed to block some of the healthcare reforms Democrats are trying to pass this year.

Their efforts could be a harbinger of trouble for the staple feature of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) newly unveiled healthcare plan: a public option that allows states the ability not to participate.



Starting as early as this summer, state lawmakers began introducing bills that would shield their citizens from individual or employer mandates, among other key reforms in Democrats' healthcare proposals, according to the National Council of State Legislatures.

Movement on those issues is not likely for a few more months, as most state legislatures are not in session. Some state constitutions also require ballot measures in order to approve changes of that magnitude, further delaying any local action on the healthcare front.