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July 20, 2009
Obama "Health Plan" to Cover 12 Million Illegals
Obama Health Plan to Cover 12 Million Illegals
On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.
The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.
The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America – a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, costs under the Obama plan being proposed by the House will saddle citizens with $1.04 trillion in new federal outlays over the next decade.
Congressional Democrats and Obama have argued that their health plan is necessary to contain rising health care costs.
But, last Thursday, CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee and warned lawmakers that the proposed “legislation significantly expands the federal responsibility for health care costs."
A key factor increasing costs is that Democratic plan provides for blanket coverage to as much as 15 percent of the U.S. population not currently insured, including illegals.
Democrats had insisted throughout the health-care reform debate that illegals would be ineligible for the so-called public option plan that is to be subsidized by taxpayers.
"We're not going to cover undocumented aliens, undocumented workers," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, told reporters in May. "That's too politically explosive."
Wild Thing's comment........
“12 million ”
LOL oh come on! It’s been 12 million for 9 years...try 22 million!
Any Republican who votes for this preposterous outrage to American freedom should be run out of town on a rail! Democrats too, but none have the stones to vote against their master.
Posted by Wild Thing at July 20, 2009 05:49 AM
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If this bill passes it will open the floodgates for illegals from all over the world. Mexico will have an immigration problem as people sneak into Mexico so they can later sneak into the US.
Our elected elite is giving America away. They are whittling America down because they believe the New World Order in which all nations are equal and live together in non sovereign harmony.
Posted by: TomR at July 20, 2009 01:08 PM
Tom, all you said is so important
and so true.
I feel so badly for the people that
have come here legally from non-Muslim
countries and have been waiting for
such a long time. They keep getting
pushed away and made to wait longer
and longer.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 20, 2009 07:42 PM
