Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: DealMonkey
Originally posted by: spidey07
WHAT IS PREVENTING ILLEGALS FROM PARTICIPATING IN EXCHANGE OR PUBLIC OPTION?
Nothing.
So let me get this straight, you're angry because the bill is going to force illegals to buy insurance while simultaneously preventing them from receiving any subsidies for said insurance? WTF is wrong with that? Do you even know what you're angry about anymore?
That's the conclusion of the Congressional Research Service, which issued a report on the topic. According to the CRS, noncitizens who can be considered "resident aliens" under U.S. tax law would have to buy insurance ? and unlike immigration laws, the tax code doesn't distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants.
"Thus, legal permanent residents, and noncitizens and unauthorized aliens who qualify as resident aliens ? would be required under H.R. 3200 to have health insurance," the new report states.
Forcing illegals to buy insurance while not subsidizing them in any way or any form is a GOOD thing.
I'm not talking about that at all. You're diverting the issue.
Illegal aliens will have access to insurance exchange and public option, our money is being used for those programs, thus our money is being used to assist illegals get public options.
I didn't say they'd get free insurance because it's not fully known if they will or will not. Nobody can guarantee that because of their income they won't get free or reduced cost public option or from the exchange. It doesn't have to be done by credit because that would be direct and we'd have proof of our tax money going directly, instead of indirerctly, to illegals. I have no problem with illegal aliens purchasing their own insurance, although I do have a problem with the entire illegal part.
Why won't congress simply write in the bills that they can't/won't? Repubs have pushed for such verbage and it's been denied. From that fact alone how can you not at least have suspicion? What harm could there be from making the bill more clear on this very important issue?
The harm? They'd lose the illegal alien vote.