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MSNBC’s First Read reported last night that the Obama Administration is now saying that illegal immigrants will be specifically prevented from obtaining coverage under the president’s health care proposal. The chage comes on the heels of Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-SC) “You lie!” outburst during Obama’s health care address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday. Although the president denied from the rostrum of the House chamber that illegals would be covered by the plan, the Administration thought it necessary to make changes to the existing proposal in order to clarify the issue.
But the bigger story the MSNBC missed with its focus on the Wilson flap is found in the second bullet point sent out by the White House last night. The Obama Administration inadvertently confirmed that the president’s plan will begin a slow take over of the health care system by the federal government. How else could this be interpreted?
“Undocumented immigrants would be able to buy insurance in the non-exchange private market, just as they do today. That market will shrink as the exchange takes hold, but it will still exist and will be subject to reforms such as the bans on pre-existing conditions and caps.”
In other words, as the federal exchange takes hold, plans not complying with the federal government’s standards will start to disappear. Eventually, it won’t make any sense for any company to offer health insurance as the federal requirements will make the business of providing health insurance far too expensive, and the premiums far too expensive for the insured.
The result will be that everyone will wind up with no other “choice” than the so-called public option, just as the Administration has planned all along. It took Wilson calling out the president's own misinformation to finally get the Administration to admit it.
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Uh, read it again. It says as "the non-exchange private market" shrinks. Not the private market in general.
Wilson was in violation of Republican House rules when he called the President a 'Liar". Check www.house.gov. Second, he used the term in reference to Obama's statement that illegals will not be covered in his plan for reform; the bills say exactly that, in the public option section. The only thing that needed to be further defined was how to verify -and that is what has now been addressed. Illegals have always been free to buy their own private insurance, and they will continue to be able to do so in the reform, if passed as it is now.
Try checking your facts, Examiner. You have no source for the quote except Red State, a political blog, and Red State links back to you for the source of the quote.
I think someone is lying.
The "Government" has NO BUSINESS in the Healthcare Business, PERIOD!!!
So illegals won't be forced to buy health insurance and will continue to get free health care at our hospitals. Tax paying citizens will pay for insurance 3 years before it is activated and since we have SS#s can have liens put on us if we don't pay our bills. What fool ever voted for this guy anyway?
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