Democrats: cover legal immigrants in Obamacare, give illegal aliens or it’s racist!
U.S. Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15), chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, is leading efforts to contain health care costs for all Americans and boost public health by including legal and undocumented immigrants in health care reform legislation. Joining Rep. Honda are leaders within the Congressional Tri-Caucus, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), and other Members of Congress. These congressional leaders are sending two letters to key players in the reform debate in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The two letters emphasize the impact of immigrant inclusion on containing health care costs for all Americans, increasing preventive care services, and streamlining the delivery of health care. One letter urges elimination of the five year waiting period for legal immigrants in the Medicaid program and opposes imposition of further barriers on legal immigrants seeking to access federal health programs in new legislation. The second letter opposes the Senate proposal that would bar undocumented immigrants from purchasing unsubsidized health insurance coverage.
Logic.
In response to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ much-publicized proposal to exclude undocumented immigrants from purchasing health insurance coverage and legal immigrants here less than five years from accessing tax credits, said Rep Honda: “American taxpayers are already paying for the health care costs of immigrants when they use emergency and social services. Americans currently pay $56 billion annually to ensure the uninsured’s use of emergency care. The fiscally prudent response, then, would be to seize the opportunity to have the uninsured help pay for their own health care, instead of spreading the cost to others — something I have pushed for as part of comprehensive immigration and health care reform efforts.”
Quotes from the letters include: “The unnecessary and burdensome waiting period has increased racial and ethnic health disparities, and thwarts the goal of health care reform. It is not only fiscally shortsighted, but also arbitrary and fundamentally unfair to deny health care coverage to legal immigrants.” These requirements are “cumbersome, ineffective, expensive, and create administrative barriers that prevent citizens from getting the health care they need. Disease and illnesses do not discriminate based on immigration status, and neither should America’s health care policy.”
From 24ahead: (Sen. Max Baucus) to expand coverage in his proposal to include all legal immigrants and to drop verification language in the legislation that would prevent illegal immigrants from obtaining coverage.
thanks to Delaware Bob pointed these two videos out.
September 28, 2009 at 10:14 pm
What Joe Wilson said. Only louder.
September 28, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Yes. I still think Joe Wilson is ok.
September 28, 2009 at 10:18 pm
This just keeps getting worse and worse. I cannot, I repeat, cannot afford any more taxes…..there really is a war against the middle class, I feel like I’m fighting for the survival of my family.
September 28, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Oh dear Imust, you are fighting for your family’s survival. If things do not work out for you there, you are always welcome out here in Texas. It’s hot. We like out guns and trucks. The illegal immigration thing is rampant here as well.
September 28, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Why thank you mcnorman for your hospitality! I’ve lived in California my whole life, but I’m not joking when I say we are being taxed alive. But from the federal government too….they take huge bites out of our paychecks and with the property taxes and sales tax so high….well, we really are reaching our limit!
September 28, 2009 at 10:47 pm
opps, that should be….taxed to death, not alive! Maybe buried alive in taxes!
September 28, 2009 at 10:51 pm
No, we don’t bury alive unless you are stealing horses. I am surprised that California has not imploded. I don’t see how you can take much more of this.
September 28, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Our government panders to the 20 to 30 plus (?) illegal immigrants allowing them free subsidies from taxpayers in the US. California–a Sanctuary State has one of the worst records that currently languish under the immense burden of near bankruptcy, instead of –ATTRACTING–ICE to illegal business operations. Why wouldn’t certain legislators want health care for foreign labor, because they have an over abundance of illegal immigrant families to financially support? Our own government is so absorbed in protecting every other countries border? They remain unconcerned to our poor replica border fence that should have been a two-tier periphery, with border patrol surveillance lanes in between, as originally planned by Rep. Duncan Hunter. Every time a good enforcement plan is written, it’s methodically cut to pieces by pro-illegal worker politicians and open border fanatics. Though we spend billions on our armed forces in foreign lands, the rich countries in Europe just forward token troops and little money: while our nation is literary falling apart at the seams–or its rivets?
Any moment now I expect to hear of yet another collapsing ailing city bridge, deteriorating waterworks, the underground pipes and eroding highway. Our cities are already exhibiting inward decay, but years of neglect by the very people who’s supposed to protect us do nothing? I have reiterated watch “The Crumbling of America” on the History (International) channel in the next few weeks and learn? This is where your tax dollars should be going? We must not allow the Administration as in previous times keep sending our precious tax dollars to other countries. These politicians are deaf, dumb and intentionally blind to the rigors our industrial nation is going through. Not just Democrats, but the Republicans have had their sticky fingers in the bad apple–SPECIAL INTEREST–barrel, where money is plentiful. It’s like they are intentionally trying to turn our magnificent country into a third world nation, while making other cheap labor countries, on an even par with our sovereign society as US wages tumble? Then Again the Council of Foreign Relations have been amplifying its agenda of free movement of cheap labor through North America for years?
Most of these other lands have been at each others throats for centuries, so why do we expect any metamorphism into something any different? Only change can come from within, not by our nation expending billions of dollars, American lives? We must build our own borders fences, tall and strong and meant to keep out drug dealers, criminal aliens, terrorists and the never ending tracks of illegal aliens. Our politician’s noses are involved in too much foreign policy, while our aging infrastructure implodes. Trillions of dollars are spirited out the country, while we gain little in return. Washington–MUST–start giving back to the jobless American worker by placing a 5 year moratorium on all immigration, even legal? The next politicians should deliver us from any new sinister path to citizenship or better referred to as BLANKET AMNESTY? Follow the “Rule of Law” and not twist it into something else for their own convenience, as it will come back to haunt them at the voting booth. Unless ACORN steps-in with another fed contract and handles sign-ups for the ballot box? In that case will still see absentee ballots for the deceased people, pets and anybody who has learned that you need no government picture ID to sign on to vote.
The 1986 immigration reform bill dismally failed last time and all we inherited was 5 million illegal immigrants that still keep on coming with their impoverished hands out. Anti-Illegal immigrant forces are growing in numbers to stop another travesty. They acknowledge it could end up costing billions, perhaps even trillions of dollars. Nationwide we have seen the advent of closing hospitals and emergency rooms that have been submerged everyday by swarms by penniless foreigners and their families. Yes! We need health care reform. Americans are dying, going bankrupt , falling under the spell of debt collectors. The special interest lobbyists are causing mass hysteria by lying to the people. Many insurance companies are under this bombardment in television, radio and mass media. Their Status quo wants no change to their profits or high flying CEO’s making millions of dollars. on patients backs? I want health care reform, for the sake of my step daughter who died of Cancer, because the insurers said it was a pre-existing condition and they couldn’t continue to insure her?
It has become an enigma–THAT THE EMPLOYERS WHO HIRE THEM-LEAVE THE MAJORITY OF SICK PEOPLE ON THE STEPS OF EMERGENCY ROOMS. SO THAT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY ENDS THERE? THEY DRIVE AWAY WITH A CLEAR CONSCIOUS? THEN IS LEFT FOR THE TAXPAYERS CHECK BOOK TO PAY THE BILL? THOSE EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE HUNTED DOWN AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY CENT. We have already been warned by the census bureau of overpopulation in the not too distant future. WE now have a very unique deterrent called E-Verify, that is a part of the SAVE ACT and our lawmakers should stop procrastinating and make it permanent for every worker? Washington knows their walking on quicksand, if the try to under fund or spirit away E-Verify this time around? The corrupting influences from the special interest lobby, have failed to induce many lawmakers to table E-Verify. In our future it could have many other uses other than extracting unauthorized labor from the workplace. Once fully installed it could check state drivers license applicants, insurance, school and higher education registrations and hospital admittances.
Americans have been unknowingly paying taxes to underwrite subsidies for the illegal population for decades. This is the biggest draw to American jobs, because the employers who hire them are sentient that taxpayers will foot the bills for education, health food stamps, housing and other government benefit consignments that even as citizens are denied. Keep the phone calls coming at 202-224-3121 LOOK FOR ANSWERS AT NUMBERSUSA, JUDICIAL WATCH & OVERPOPULATION AT CAPSWEB? These websites can identity politicians who actually work for the American people and others whose immigration grading level is unsatisfactory to stay in office? Have you heard about any large ICE raids lately? ICE got the order to cease and desist from the motley Democratic leadership. They are also using their influence to either weaken the federal training program 287 G that gives local police federal right to hold for questioning suspicious individual’s immigration status and to rescind the no-match-letter capability in determining a person’s right to work?
September 29, 2009 at 12:27 am
“I tell you this: whatever you did to the least of these brothers of mine, you did to me”
You Know Who of Nazareth
Here an excerpt from an open letter to the American people written recently by my brother, Jeff:
“In the US, you pay more, get less, and die younger than we do in Europe. What part of that don’t you understand?
“My fellow Americans, you have nothing to fear except those who would use fear to keep you enslaved to the myth of the might of the American health care system.”
Jeff Degan
What can I tell you, the guy is a communist. Not only does he live in France, he actually likes it there! Go figure.
http://www.tomdegan.blogspot.com
Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
September 29, 2009 at 1:46 am
Tom, I am thoroughly happy that your brother is a happy commie living in France. This is not about Jesus. This is about taxes, our representation, health care transparency and legal immigration versus illegal immigration. If my own Congressman doesn’t have a freakin clue about what he is pimping as my responsibility, I have a problem with that.
Is your brother living in France illegally? If he is working in the system, he is paying into the system. What is more important is that the people of France want to do this and have a system to execute their wishes.
There is no emergency here. We should have the time to read and decide for ourselves what we want to commit to.
September 29, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Illegal aliens shouldn’t even be in this Country and you want to cover them with health insurance? What are you smoking or drinKing? I thing you are one of these people who are blind to the fact that illegal aliens are destroying this Country.
Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care.
I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It’s time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It’s time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
So, let’s put an end to all this and get rid of ALL the illegal aliens. STOP PANDERING TO ILLEGAL ALIENS!
September 29, 2009 at 1:36 pm
This issue is about breaking the law PERIOD. Nothing more. Everyone is welcome in this country however, we want them to go about it legally. Without the pandering, many politicians cease to have a platform.