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Health care to illegals to burden system
Published Wednesday, October 21, 2009
The Congressional Research Service is the division of the Library of Congress dedicated to providing nonpartisan research to members of Congress. And here’s what it says about the administration’s health care legislation (H.R. 3200): “Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option … H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens — whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently — participating in the Exchange.”
Could the Congressional Research Service be lying or inaccurate? I don’t think so. In short, the bill contains no verification mechanism. This is like putting a speed-limit sign on a road, then setting a policy that prohibits police from patrolling the road. Masses of noncitizens — whether legally present or not, here permanently or temporarily — will be speeding right by to grab those health care services, at your expense.
Dennis Olson
Albert Lea
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Posted by realchange (anonymous) on October 21, 2009 at 9:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
secure the border and start deporting, that will be cheaper than keep supporting criminals.
Posted by standingby (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 8:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
DITTO realchange! I am with you all the way! Need to get law enforcement in the community's that will be aggressive in enforcing arrest and deportation! Just wondering how many illegals go those protests? Hmmmmm,...................
Posted by sachchit (anonymous) on October 22, 2009 at 10:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
This letter is a nice example of selective editing... the actual quote is:
"H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in and paying for coverage available through the Exchange."
(CRS Report #R40773, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40773_20...)
Note - participating in AND PAYING FOR COVERAGE AVAILABLE through the exchange. A very important clarification, I would think.
Whether or not this is appropriate public policy is a valid debate, but we should at least have the courtesy of not citing authoritative sources and then mis-quoting them. What could the intent be other than to deliberately mislead and misinform?
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