As recently as Saturday, far-left Bucks County Democrat Congressman Patrick Murphy repeated the lie that the ObamaCare plan for a government run health care system would not cover illegal immigrants. The lie was dutifully reported as accepted fact by “reporter” Jo Ciavaglia in Sunday’s Bucks County Courier-Times / Patrick Murphy newsletter.
Patrick Murphy knows full well that there is nothing in HR 3200 which would prevent illegal immigrants from receiving free health care under ObamaCare. Members of his party have voted twice to strike down amendments to the bill that would close the loophole that provides free health care to illegal immigrants.
Verification that HR 3200 will provide care to illegal immigrants comes from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, a division of the Library of Congress.
Congressman Lamar Smith quotes extensively from the Congressional Research Service’s report in a recent press release.
From the CRS as quoted by Congressman Smith:
BACKGROUND: IMMIGRATION LOOPHOLES IN HR 3200
Open access to Insurance Exchange: HR 3200 contains no provisions preventing illegal immigrants from participating in the Health Insurance Exchange that is to be created, including the government-run “public plan” that will be available through the federally-run and federally-subsidized Exchange.
Under H.R. 3200, a ‘Health Insurance Exchange’ would begin operation in 2013 and would offer private plans alongside a public option…H.R. 3200 does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the Exchange.
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“Some have expressed concerns that since H.R. 3200 does not contain a mechanism to verify immigration status, the prohibitions on certain noncitizens (e.g, nonimmigrants and unauthorized aliens) receiving the credits may not be enforced. However, others note that under §142(a)(3) of the bill, it is the responsibility of the Health Choices Commissioner (Commissioner) to administer the “individual affordability credits under subtitle C of title II, including determination of eligibility for such credits.”
The “Health Choices Commissioner,” definitely not a “Death Commissioner,” by the way, would decide whether or not some or all illegal immigrants would be covered by the plan. Is there any question which way any “Health Choices Commissioner” appointed by a radical leftist like Barack Obama would decide?
Family eligibility for affordability credits: Section 242(a)(2) of the bill provides that “[e]xcept as the Commissioner may otherwise provide, members of the same family who are affordable credit eligible individuals shall be treated as a single affordable credit individual eligible for the applicable credit for such a family under this subtitle.” This suggests that if one member of a family is legally eligible, every family member will be considered eligible. This is significant in terms of numbers — the Pew Hispanic Center estimated that there are almost two million families in the United States where illegal immigrant parents have U.S.-born children. That does not include other “mixed status families” – one legal parent, one illegal parent and illegal child, etc.
According to CRS: “There could be instances where some family members would meet the definition of an eligible individual for purposes of the credit, while other family members would not. For example, in a family consisting of a U.S. citizen married to an unauthorized alien and a U.S. citizen child, the U.S. citizen spouse and child could meet the criteria for being a credit-eligible individual, while the unauthorized alien spouse would not meet the criteria. H.R. 3200 does not expressly address how such a situation would be treated. Therefore, it appears that the Health Choices Commissioner would be responsible for determining how the credits would be administered in the case of mixed-status families.”
CRS reports are generally not made public, but Patrick Murphy has access to reserach by the Congressional Research Service. He knows that Democrats have thwarted attempts to close these loopholes that provide free health care to illegal immigrants. He is willing to say anything, even willful verifiable lies, to pass his socialist dream legislation.
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An ominous pattern is slowly emerging towards an inevitable power play on pushing another amnesty through Congress. We need to take the many consequences into consideration:
1 We already had an enforceable 1986 law to stop the illegal immigrant invasion of our country, but it has been intentionally ignored? So–WHY–are they adamant in passing another immigration law?
2. Most enforcement legislation has been crushed or weakened by many of the politicians we voted into office.
3. That many of our own government members have pandered to the special interest lobbyists and not voters.
4 For decades American taxpayers have been supporting, business welfare, who have never contributed to foreign national workers. That emergency hospitals, must attend any foreign person who enters its doors, illegal or legal? ICE should be on standby and demand who that individual is working for and subsequently make the employer pay instead of the taxpayers.
5. That Democrats are downplaying that the 20 plus illegal immigrant families living here, will not have access to the health care reform package? But are not saying that if a new path to citizenship is enacted, they can automatically get health care?
6. Should a new immigration reform package is passed, what’s stopping millions more poor, uneducated people storming the border.
7. Why did Sen. Harry Reid, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the party try to dismantle E-Verify and under fund the border fence, so it was only a single layer instead of two tiers?
8 That E-Verification is working and working well, so no wonder the US Chamber of Commerce, ACLU, Cato Institute and a large majority of anti-sovereignty groups have been involved in lawsuits, and questionable appeasement by politicians to kill the any enforcement laws.
GET RAW ANSWERS AT NUMBERSUSA Contact those in WASHINGTON! NO MORE AMNESTIES. USE ATTRITION TO DEPORT ILLEGAL WORKERS THROUGH E-VERIFY, 287 G, NO MATCH SOCIAL SECURITY LETTERS AND LIGHTENING ICE RAIDS. CONTACT YOUR POLITICIAN 202-224-3121 AND DEMAND NO WEAKENING OF CURRENT 1986 (IRCA) OTHER SITES FOR INFORMATION IS HERITAGE FOUNDATION, JUDICIAL WATCH.
Illegal aliens get FREE health care now, even though they are in this Country ILLEGALLY! Talk about needing reform, how about putting an end to is?
Every illegal alien in this Country is a criminal! Everyone of them. How many have stolen identities? How about forged documents or fake green cards?
Illegal aliens have made America the dumping ground for all their illegal alien children, then we have to school them and give them free medical care. Would you call this a type of rape of the American taxpayer?
I for one, am sick and tired of these ILLEGAL ALIENS snubbing their nose at our immigration laws and the many other laws of this Country. If our Federal Government can not ENFORCE our immigration laws, and get these ILLEGAL ALIENS out of this Country, then let the States do it! One way or another, an end has to come to this illegal immigration, and not with AMNESTY! Amnesty will only encourage more ILLEGAL ALIENS to invade our Country and reward those who broke our laws and raped the American taxpayer in many ways…depressing our wages, taking our jobs, overwhelming our schools with their ILLEGAL ALIEN children, driving without a license or car insurance, all the crime from stolen identities to rape, drugs and everything else.
It’s time for ZERO TOLERENCE with these ILLEGAL ALIENS. It’s time for them get out of this Country and back in their own Country where they belong. When we get rid of the ILLEGAL ALIENS, we will get rid of all the problems that go with them. THAT IS A FACT!
It’s time to fire Murphy – November 2010.
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Its about time we recognize that patrick murphy is nothing more then a left wing rubber stamp for obama and nancy pelosi.Don’t let his tricky rhetoric fool you.Check his voting record, it by no means represents his district, only small areas of left wing doylestown,the reporters at the courier and his lawyer wife. Call this guy what he is . A left wing attorney hand picked by rahm to fool us all into thinking he is a middle of the road democrat(there ain’t no such thing). Get past the pretty boy,faux veteran BS and see this left wing clown for what he is. Lets get a person in who really represents us and not what some socialist politican from san francisco like nancy pelosi.