Court: N.C. must broaden its Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants

Greensboro News and Record ^

[AppyPappy]

Court: N.C. must broaden its Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants

RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina must broaden its Medicaid coverage for illegal immigrants to allow for longer-term treatment of serious health problems, the state Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The ruling could expand the kinds of medical treatment that illegal immigrants receive under the Medicaid program. For hospitals that are already treating illegal immigrants, the decision could also mean more Medicaid reimbursements.

[gubamyster]

ping

[junta]

The people who run the government really hate us, really bad.

[skeeter]

Today you have almost exclusively fast foods and poor motel service because of this pressure to pander to your emotions,. Now you pump your own gas, pick up your own food in a restaurant, and soon you will make your own beds, or purchase fruits and vegetables from Timbuktu, because we cut off immigration... I'm outta here.. Bash Bush, bus your own tables, and feed your kids junk.. you are winning.. Developing.

I don't understand you're point - immigration , both legal & illegal, is at an all time high and there's every indication it will be accelerating.

[Robert Drobot]

Take The Lead North Carolina!!!

Tell the Courts Where They Can Put Their Anti-American Dictate

STOP --- STOP --- STOP

Un-American Judicial Tyranny

Starting Today!!!

[Gritty]

I started reading this and didn't have the heart to finish the article.

Illegal aliens no longer even bother to hide themselves. They just show up and get their rightful benefits.

[DLfromthedesert]

And their insurance cancelled!!

[Vinnie]

Most of these wonderful folks stayed long enough to establish a record of employment and opened their own businesses, or bought homes and learned English and blended into our lives as equals.

There is one huge difference betwen the people you write about and the illegal alien problem tiday.

Your people came legally, and expected to make roots here.

Most of the illegals today send much of their money home and only expect to make money here. They have no plans on staying and starting a new life here.

They aren't really immigrants they are temporary workers.

I'm all for legal immigration, as most immigrants have a burning desire to make a new life and work hard to do it. That desire is what has made the Country great.
But today we have people coming here expecting to go on Gov assistance.

I think some sort of temporary work visa is an excellent idea, BUT there has to be benefit restrictions.
No SS benefits ( possibly collect SS taxes and apply it to their country of origin old age plan),
emergency medical care only ( or thru an employer plan),
children born to work visa holders are NOT U.S. citizens.
If they lose the job, bye- bye.

But first, enforce the border.

[Lancey Howard]

Puke and bump.

[Lancey Howard]

See, here is where, if I was the governor of NC, I would use this judge's decision as a great motivator to round the illegals up and get rid of them. Part I: Station uniformed state troopers at every hospital to ask for "papers".

[Lancey Howard]

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[Lancey Howard]

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[FITZ]

Wasn't that $1 billion in the new Medicare bill for the health care of illegals? Or do they want even more?

Bush must not be planning on having the employers participating in the 'matching mexicans to jobs' program being set up provide any health care benefits. We the taxpayers, the chumps will pay for their freebies.

[FITZ]

Can't round them up --- Bush is making them legal --- calling them guest workers. They'll stay and we'll pay for them. Obviously it's too unfair to expect the illegal or new guest workers to pay their own way, to pay health insurance premiums like we do.

[Kuksool]

More judicial activism. The power of liberal judges needs to be aborted.

NC needs to repeal its that allows illegals to obtain driver's licenses. As long as that policy is in place, illegals will continue to swarm into the Tar Heel State.

[lainde]

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[sweetliberty]

And we wonder why we can't get rid of them.

[sweetliberty]

"You have to wake up, America."

America is like a body that is being drugged. Every organ of the body can fight against the effects of a drug, but as long as the head makes the decision to drug the body and the hand puts the drugs in the mouth and mouth swallows, all parts of the body will be drugged nonetheless.

[sweetliberty]

"I just visited NC for the Christmas holiday and was shocked at how many illegals were running rampant - even in the countryside."

Arkansas is the same way.

[sweetliberty]

"Has Howard Dean proposed closing the borders and deporting the current population of illegal aliens?"

No; Howard Dean is mad because Bush's proposal doesn't go far enough. In other words, he wants to fast track them to citizenship and RAT votes.

[sweetliberty]

"They just show up and get their rightful benefits."

"They just show up and get their rightful wrongful benefits."