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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on September 28, 2009, 04:29:51 AM
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Fearful that they're losing ground on immigration and health care, a group of House Democrats is pushing back and arguing that any health care bill should extend to all legal immigrants and allow illegal immigrants some access.
The Democrats, trying to stiffen their party's spines on the contentious issue, say it's unfair to bar illegal immigrants from paying their own way in a government-sponsored exchange. Legal immigrants, they say, regardless of how long they've been in the United States, should be able to get government-subsidized health care if they meet the other eligibility requirements.
"Legal permanent residents should be able to purchase their plans, and they should also be eligible for subsidies if they need it. Undocumented, if they can afford it, should be able to buy their own private plans. It keeps them out of the emergency room," said Rep. Michael M. Honda, California Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Mr. Honda was joined by more than 20 of his colleagues in two letters laying out the demands.
Coverage for immigrants is one of the thorniest issues in the health care debate, and one many Democratic leaders would like to avoid. But immigrant rights groups and the Democrats who sent the letters say they have to take a stand now.
The rest is at:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/28/liberals-seek-health-care-access-for-illegals/
We knew it was coming . . . ::)
Don't know quite how this one is going to go. Does this add to their arguments with the American people? Or, far more likely, does it show just how desperate the Dems are--and doom the plan forever? (Hopefully, the latter is the case.)
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"Legal permanent residents should be able to purchase their plans, and they should also be eligible for subsidies if they need it. Undocumented, if they can afford it, should be able to buy their own private plans. It keeps them out of the emergency room," said Rep. Michael M. Honda, California Democrat and chairman of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
What's stopping them from doing that now, other than the cost? If Mr. Honda thinks his colleagues have proposed anything that actually lowers the cost of health insurance, I'd like to see it.
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What's stopping them from doing that now, other than the cost? If Mr. Honda thinks his colleagues have proposed anything that actually lowers the cost of health insurance, I'd like to see it.
Maybe the more deluded among them thinks that, but the elephant in the room is the fact that it simply means more government control over the lives of its citizens, nothing more.
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But I thought the President told us there wasn't going to be any coverage for illegals?
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Liberals seek health-care access for illegals
In other news, water is wet, the Jug-eared Kenyan is "President", and if brains were dynamite, congresscritters wouldn't have enough to blow their own noses.
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But I thought the President told us there wasn't going to be any coverage for illegals?
Obama is the king of plausible deniability - it will be the legislature's fault, not his.