-By Warner Todd Huston
In a July interview with Katie Couric, President Obama was asked if “his” plan would cover illegal aliens. He responded with a simple “no.”
To be sure there is language in House bill 3200 that says illegals aren’t covered.
Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.
But who cannot realize that all it will take is the next Congress to take out the red pen to strike out this little provision so that the government can then begin covering illegals? There is nothing at all keeping any subsequent Congress from doing so as no matter what this Congress does it cannot bind any future Congress.
Representative Lamar Alexander (R, Texas) has even said that, prohibiting language or no, there are so many loopholes in HR3200 that illeglas can easily find government funding for healthcare, anyway.
But all those finer points aside, there is one hint that Obamacare will, indeed, cover illegals — or at least is meant to — and it can be found in the president’s own rhetoric. Witness Obama’s constant claim that 46 million Americans “cannot get insurance” and that a compassionate government would cover them all.
Included in that 46 million number that Obama uses every time he hawks the snake-oil of Obamacare is around 9.4 million non-Americans.
The simple fact of the matter is that if Obama did not intend to cover non-citizens he would not be using the 46 million uninsured number. He’d at least be cutting down that number by about ten million.
But he doesn’t. He includes those non-citizens every time revealing his intentions from the beginning.
(Cross posted at HealthcareHorseRace.com.)
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as NewsBusters.org, RightWingNews.com, StoptheACLU.com, TheRealityCheck.org, RedState.com, Human Events Magazine, AmericanDailyReview.com, and the New Media Journal, among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events and is currently the co-host of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Conservatism” heard on BlogTalkRadio. Warner is also the editor of the Cook County Page for RedCounty.com.
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