White House: No Obamacare for illegal immigrants
By SUSAN CRABTREE • 9/14/16 2:14 PM
The White House indicated Wednesday that it's unlikely to grant a waiver to make California the first state in the country to allow illegal immigrants to buy healthcare on the Obamacare exchange.
Thirty-seven California Democrats on Capitol Hill asked the administration in a letter for an exception to the law to allow for an estimated 50,000 of the state's undocumented workers to purchase healthcare plans.
Presidential press secretary Josh Earnest Wednesday told reporters he hadn't seen the letter, but noted that the way the Affordable Care Act is written, "individuals who are undocumented immigrants are not eligible to collect benefits."
He attributed the false belief that illegal immigrants are accessing Obamacare to "fearmongering or outright lying on the part of Republicans."
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