Don’t laugh, it might just happen.
This is not a proposal to halt immigration. It’s a call for rationalizing immigration. In some domains, in fact, health-care reform may lead to a heightened need of immigrants. Who knows? If the Obama reforms squeeze the incomes of health-care professionals tightly enough, doctoring may become one of those jobs that Americans “just won’t do.”
via How immigration reform threatens health reform. Incredibly honest read about amnesty. Who pays, more or less and the outcomes.
IMO, amnesty does not work. The largest threat is who will enforce this? Will the illegal population pay, even if forced? Call me skeptical, but I have to ask how? This population lives in the shadows. The penalty to not purchase into the system is high for citizens. Will the non citizens be excused for not purchasing insurance because their pay is not sufficient to pay into the system? Will the penalty be the same for those who are not citizens? How will all of this be enforced? Frankly, they can easily run away and leave the tab unpaid. It happens all the time.
March 25, 2010 at 3:52 pm
National ID card with Biometrics but the govt does not keep a data base? Who is kidding who here?
The restaurants have figured out how to game the e-check system- they would figure out how to beat this too.
The stories I could tell about a major buffet chain that gives a wink and a nod and encourages managers to hire (illegal) Hispanics. “If you can get one Hispanic and treat him well he will bring you his family and friends.” Yes that was actually said to me by regional managers and VPs. And tells managers in their training classes it is not the managers job to know how to tell a fake SS card from a real one….
March 25, 2010 at 6:34 pm
I know this only too well. If you walk into the kitchen, you find young teens working. They will do whatever they feel like doing with that card whenever it suits them.