Straight from the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR.)
Last Tuesday, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which is the non-partisan "research arm" of the United States Congress, issued a report that concludes that illegal aliens will be able to receive benefits under the House health care bill (H.R. 3200) through two major loopholes. (See CRS Report and FAIR Press Release, August 26, 2009).
According to its own website, CRS is a legislative branch agency that provides Congress with "policy and legal analysis" that is authoritative, objective and accurate. (CRS website). The latest CRS report validates what FAIR has been saying for the past month and a half — that illegal aliens will be able to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits under the House health care bill. (See FAIR's Legislative Updates, July 20, 2009; July 27, 2009 and August 3, 2009).
The House bill creates an "exchange" and "all individuals," which would include illegal aliens, are eligible to participate in the exchange. Anyone who participates in the exchange, and does not otherwise have health insurance, can either enroll in the public option plan created by the House bill or enroll in a private insurance plan. Accordingly, the first loophole that provides illegal aliens with health insurance is the ability for illegal aliens to freely enroll in the taxpayer-subsidized public option. According to CRS, "H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on non-citizens — whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently — from participating in the Exchange." (CRS Report). Accordingly, illegal aliens can enroll in the public option, courtesy of the American taxpayers, to meet their health insurance needs. (See CNN.com, August 2009).
The second major loophole is the failure to require any meaningful verification procedure for taxpayer-subsidized insurance credits. Under the House bill, individuals who buy private insurance through the Exchange may receive an affordability credit to offset the cost of insurance. This credit is ostensibly limited to individuals lawfully present in the U.S., but CRS (like FAIR) notes the complete absence of any provision in the House bill that requires verification of eligibility for the affordability credits. Without such a mechanism, there is nothing in the bill that will prevent illegal aliens from receiving this taxpayer subsidy to buy private health insurance.
These conclusions by CRS should eliminate any remaining doubt about whether illegal aliens will receive health benefits under the bill. As a result of this report, President Obama can no longer characterize the concerns about the illegal alien health care loophole under the bill as "misinformation." (See FAIR's Legislative Update, August 24, 2009 and FAIR's Health Care Podcast, August 24, 2009). In addition, Members of Congress can no longer claim the bill prevents coverage for illegal aliens, and the media can no longer suggest this concern is a "myth." (See FAIR's House bill summary and Townhall.com, August 27, 2009).
Listen at 17:53 to 19:00:
The message above should tell you who the liar is!!! That is BOTH Robert Gibbs AND President Barack Hussein Obama!! JUST LIKE GEORGE W. BUSH BEING A GOD DAMN LIAR (I apologize to the relgious folks, I'm agnostic and need emphasis!) I ask you all, is it right that you have to pay for something and illegal immigrants can get the same benefits without being fined, without having to pay for it? I've already showed how the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi (aka Mussolini in my book) called illegal immigrants patriots!! They broke our laws yet they're patriots. I guess that means if I rob a store I'm a patriot but because I work and pay taxes I'm Un-American!! How do you feel about being Un-American?? Don't you think illegal immigrants should get the boot and come here the legal way, like our ancestors had to do?? What makes the so freggin special. Their shit stinks too!
How is non law abiding, non citizens getting better treatment than law abiding citizens right??? Well that's what will happen if this bs goes thru. Granted it already happens but it will happen to a larger degree afterwards! As I say, get a COP at the ER and deport every illegal as they show up. Take them in for breaking the law and deport their asses!!! I don't care how sick they are. You know what, you shouldn't have broken the law to come here, we'll fee you to the sharks in the ocean. That'll teach the illegal immigrants to come here the proper way. Cuz nice guys finish last and if anyone knows that, I do.
While on the topic of llegal immgrants, did you know they can collect welfare? My uncle whose goingto lose soem disability because he was apparently collecting illegally for some time, was in the Social Security office. My brother was telling me there was a guy there complain that he could not collect disability because he was not a citizen. He was told to go to the welfare office. That means you can break our freggin laws and take our tax payer money. WTF is that? When will our government stand up for ITS OWN PEOPLE and not EVERYONE ELSE'S. go read below cuz after my brother told m,e that story I looked up more on FAIR.
Illegal Immigration is a Burden on the Taxpayer
The costs of illegal immigration to the taxpayer are numerous, but the largest costs are education of their children, emergency medical care and incarceration for those arrested for crimes. Despite being ineligible, some illegal aliens also get welfare the same way they get jobs: with identity documents falsely identifying them as U.S. citizens. In addition, if they have U.S.-born children, they may collect welfare assistance in the name of those children. The annual net cost of illegal immigrants (after subtracting their tax payments) to the American taxpayer is likely to be more than $45 billion. Our recent study of the net fiscal “Costs of illegal immigration to Californians” estimated the partial costs at $10.5 billion in that state alone.