Dakota Beacon

By careful choice of words in discussion of a specific aspect of current health care legislation Obama and socialized medicine supporters continue to try and fool Americans about the implications of taxpayers paying massively for the health care of illegal aliens.

Senator Byron Dorgan, Jamestown, North Dakota, August 21, 2009:

“There is not going to be a health care plan passed by the congress that covers illegal aliens, it has been alleged that the plan does, it does not.”

Barack Obama, radio address, August 27, 2009:

“I want to spend a few minutes debunking some of the more outrageous myths circulating on the Internet, on cable TV, and repeated at some town halls across this country.

“Let’s start with the false claim that illegal immigrants will get health insurance under reform. That’s not true.  Illegal immigrants would not be covered.”

Obama is careful to speak here very narrowly about a single aspect of H.R. 3200, Section 246 of the bill. That section deal strictly with insurance subsidies and says: “Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.”

This is the oft cited single line of H.R. 3200 that supporters of the bill claim proves that illegal immigrants will not get government health care as a result of the bill’s passage. Section 241 (pages 128 – 132) provides for “affordability credits”, or subsidies, to pay for insurance premiums or annual out-of-pocket health care costs. It is about who by law is limited to obtaining help buy insurance, and that illegal immigrants are not eligible.

THIS DOES NOT SAY THAT NO WAY, NO HOW CAN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS GET TAXPAYER FUNDED MEDICAL CARE AS A RESULT OF H.R. 3200!

THIS IS ANOTHER PURPOSEFUL DECEPTION BY BARACK OBAMA!



From the document, “Treatment of Noncitizens in H.R. 3200” by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service:

“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.”

Illegal noncitizens WILL get health care under H.R. 3200!



In a Human Events article of August 27, 2009, Ernest Istook explains why, “Nothing illustrates America’s distrust of Congress quite like the illegal immigrant provision of the House health care bill, HR 3200.”

Istook cites the attempt by Republicans to amend H.R. 3200 to explicitly exclude illegal immigrants from taxpayer paid health care under the bill:

The House bill not only makes a major expansion of Medicaid eligibility but also restricts (in Section 1702) inquiries about immigration status. Efforts to fix this and to add enforcement provisions to HR 3200 were offered in the Ways & Means Committee by Rep. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and in the Energy & Commerce Committee by Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.), but voted down. No Democrats supported Heller.

Writing about the July 18, 2009 vote, Newsmax.com stated:

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.

The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.

Representative Earl Pomeroy voted against the Heller amendment.



So, are Earl Pomeroy and Byron Dorgan going to explain the seeming discrepancies here?

Hold your breath starting right…..NOW!