Would ObamaCare Cover Illegal Immigrants?
by tdaxp ~ August 30th, 2009
Brendan thinks so.
The mechanism would be as followed: while ObamaCare has paper-prohibitions on numerous things (such as the rich getting means-tested care, and illegal-immigrants signing up for the plan), the law provides that the Internal Revenue Service share income data, but not that Homeland Security share legal residency status.
If this is true, ObamaCare contains a double-standard, holding Americans to a “trust-but-verify” standard while illegal immigrants are held to a “trust without verification” standard.
Relatedly, NPR notes that half of all illegal immigrants already have health insurance.
The New York Times uses top 1% of income, not wealth. From the legend:...
August 30th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
A double standard from a statist? *gasp* say it isn’t so! This isn’t the HopeNChange that people voted for… is it… is it?
August 31st, 2009 at 5:24 am
China has a medical system which involves waiting lists and not verifying identities. The result is scalping. [1]
Its disturbing Obama and Pelosi want to import this system to our country.
[1] http://www.chinasmack.com/videos/chinese-hospital-rushed-patients-ticket-scalpers/