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Unseemly haste, thy name is Obama

July 21, 2009 - 5:24 pm - by Roger Kimball
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2009-07-22 13:55:54

Jharp: This bill will guarantee free health care to illegal aliens, yet if we legal citizens do not want to participate we will be fined.

Immigration analyst James R. Edwards, Jr. reported last week in National Review that “no health legislation on the table requires federal, state, or local agencies — or private institutions receiving federal funds — to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens.” Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a new preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance. That’s right. Law-abiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn’t submit to the Obamacare prescription. Law-breaking border-crossers, visa-overstayers, and deportation fugitives would be spared.

Explain to me why this is a good thing. PLEASE!