{"id":1879,"date":"2009-11-06T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2009-11-06T11:31:14","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T16:31:14","slug":"obamacare-for-illegals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1879\/obamacare-for-illegals\/","title":{"rendered":"ObamaCare for Illegals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his nationally televised address on health care to a joint session of Congress in September, President Obama stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are also those who claim that our [health care] reform effort will insure illegal immigrants.\u00a0 This, too, is false \u2014 the reforms I\u2019m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, either the President wasn\u2019t being totally honest when he made that statement or Nancy Pelosi wasn\u2019t paying attention or just flat out ignored it.\u00a0 H.R. 3962, the 2,000-plus-page (and growing), $1.3 trillion (and growing) \u201creform\u201d proposal that the House will be voting on tomorrow \u2013 and for which President Obama has pledged his support \u2013 in fact <em>does<\/em> enable illegal immigrants to receive health care.<\/p>\n<p>According to a November 2, 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/site\/DocServer\/CRS_report_noncitizen_eligibility_health_care_reform.pdf?docID=3901\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional Research Service report<\/a>, &#8220;The House bill contains no express restrictions on noncitizens \u2013 whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently \u2013 accessing and paying for coverage available through the health insurance exchange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just a few days earlier, the Congressional Budget Office (&#8220;CBO&#8221;) noted in its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbo.gov\/ftpdocs\/106xx\/doc10688\/hr3962Rangel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">preliminary cost estimate of H.R. 3962<\/a> that in 2019 there would be \u201cabout 18 million nonelderly residents uninsured (nearly one third of whom would be unauthorized immigrants).\u201d\u00a0 In other words, CBO projects that six million illegals \u2013 nearly half of all illegal immigrants currently living in the United States, according to official government estimates \u2013 would be provided health care under the legislation by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Repeated attempts to amend the underlying legislation upon which H.R. 3962 was drafted to provide for adequate verification of U.S. citizenship and to explicitly exclude illegal immigrants from receiving health benefits under the bill\u00a0have all failed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tom Price, Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, has a more thorough analysis of the issue <a href=\"http:\/\/rsc.tomprice.house.gov\/UploadedFiles\/Immigration_in_Health_Care.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his nationally televised address on health care to a joint session of Congress in September, President Obama stated: There are also those who claim that our [health care] reform effort will insure illegal immigrants.\u00a0 This, too, is false \u2014 the reforms I\u2019m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.&#8221; Well, either [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,447],"class_list":["post-1879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}