How Should Healthcare Reform Handle Illegal Immigrants?
Proponents of healthcare for undocumented immigrants say that the fight on immigration can wait and that protecting everyone is the best and least expensive policy in the long run. Opponents argue that, compassion aside, U.S. taxpayers should not be on the hook for that care.
Edited by Steve St. Angelo
Yes
By Eric Rodriguez
Vice president, National Council of La Raza; heads Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation
The fight over legal and undocumented immigrant inclusion in a reformed healthcare system has been brewing for months but has recently intensified. Anti-immigrant politicians have called the president a "liar" over the question of whether or not his plan would give benefits to "illegal aliens." But rather than expose these politicians for fearmongering, honest health-reform negotiators have inadvertently...
No
By Daniel Stein
President of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
As the long and complex national debate about healthcare policy has unfolded, there is still a good deal of disagreement among Americans about many aspects of the bills that are making their way through Congress. On one matter, however, there is overwhelming consensus: Eighty percent of Americans are opposed to including illegal aliens under a taxpayer-subsidized national healthcare plan, according to a June 2009...
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Illegal Immigration
It seems that far to many people use the words "Illegal Immigration" and "Immigration", or the words "Illegal Immigrant" and "Immigrant" as synonyms. They are not. Illegal is Illegal whether it is immigrating, stealing cars, rape, murder or anything else. The American public must separate illegal immigrants from "LEGAL" immigrants. When a person has come to the United States legally they should be provided all of the rights and privileges available under our laws. All who are here illegally should be punished and denied any rights or privileges as any other "illegal" act would garner. It is as though many do not understand the term illegal in this one instance or choose to ignore it. Illegal is illegal is illegal no matter what other word is used with it.
Insuring Illegal Immigrants
They do not have to be included in the health care bill...they already have coverage thanks to a Reagan bill that says anyone within 1 hundred feet of a medical facility, insured or not, resident or no must be treated...thus we have ambulances coming from mexico to san diego hospitals...so your argument is nonsensical...do your research before you start spewing your mornful cries of foul propogated by the Fox Political Fraud Hounds....
data past domestic stance possibly
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