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Illegal immigrants and health care reform
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| Contributor | Jason |
| Last Edited | Jason Aug 20, 2009 06:58pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Kelly Brewington |
| News Date | Thursday, August 20, 2009 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | And you thought the uproar over "death panels" had reached a fever pitch. Well, here's another topic making the heated rounds in the health care reform brawls: Should illegal immigrants be eligible for coverage?
First off, none of the plans currently in Congress include illegal immigrants. President Obama and Nancy Pelosi have made a point of underscoring this lately. In fact, up until the town halls got ugly in recent weeks, no one in Congress was even talking about health insurance for illegal immigrants. That hasn't stopped angry opponents from asserting all sorts of false claims -- free insurance to non-citizens, among them. (PolitiFact debunks a that claim, for the record.)
It also hasn't stopped immigrant advocates from asking -- wait a second, what about us? |
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