pallnet wrote:They want to give health care to illegals when they can easily catch them and export them out of our country..... WTF??
This is insane!!!
Again, this is bull.
Nowhere in the bill does it say that they want to give illegal immigrants state-paid healthcare. This is a myth.
What it DOES say is that hospitals can't turn injured people down. This is a very sensible rule. Unfortunately, there is no easy way for hospitals to quickly and easily verify immigration status, so there's some fraction of injured people that will be illegal.
What we need is better identification/tracking of illegals. It's an immigration question, not a health care question. We need to have immigration status on drivers' licenses, etc.
Frankly, I think we should just go ahead and make them all legal residents, unless they have criminal backgrounds (we would ask for foreign ID and run a check with their home gov't). Make them legal and get them paying taxes and signing up for service.
With illegal immigrants, the problem is that they are illegal, not that they're immigrants. I won't go into why the whole "they take jobs" argument is bullshxt.