Posted on 01/23/2009 6:07:42 PM PST by Steelfish
Obama Extends Healthcare to Illegal Aliens January 19, 2009 CFIF.org
As Taxpayers Struggle, Congress and Obama Extend Healthcare to Illegal Immigrants, and Raise Taxes on Lower-Income Americans
While an increasing number of Americans face layoffs, benefit cuts and difficulty paying their bills, the last thing that President-Elect Obama and Congress should be doing is devising ways to make taxpayers' lives even tougher by forcing them to subsidize healthcare for illegal immigrants.
But believe it or not, that is precisely what they are poised to do.
In so doing, they will also raise taxes on Americans earning well under $250,000, the supposed floor that Obama promised during campaign season for any tax increases.
This week, the House voted to expand the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP, pronounced "s-chip"), the federal health care system that provides health insurance to lower-income children via funding to the states. Created in 1997, it constituted the greatest government healthcare expansion since Medicaid and Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society."
In theory, SCHIP aims to assist children whose families' incomes are too high to qualify for Medicaid, but too low to afford private insurance. In practice, however, SCHIP covers hundreds of thousands of adults, while excluding many children that it should presumably assist.
And in 2007, the Pelosi-Reid Congress attempted to eviscerate even that income criterion, by expanding SCHIP to cover families whose incomes exceeded the federal poverty level some 300%. Accordingly, it was rightfully seen as a first step on the inexorable road to nationalized health care for all Americans.
And now, Obama and Congress are not only preparing to implement that dramatic funding increase, but also to remove current restrictions prohibiting illegal immigrants from exploiting SCHIP to receive benefits.
Don’t blame me...I voted for Sarah.
Equally miserable.
Everybody except him and his ilk.
Welcome to communism.
Is it any surprise? I mean isn’t everyone waiting for their SCHIP to come in?
And the idiots who voted for him will STILL blame conservatives.
Hussein said he would fix things. The middle class cannot disintegrate fast enough, so he and the evil congress are compelled to accelerate our demise.
You don’t think his voters care do you?
I’m so disgusted with my “fellow Americans” I don’t know if I even want to be here anymore. I feel defeated in “taking back my country” since everyone is on this wave of Obama.
What budget deficit?
That would be a great bumper sticker!
Not so fast. The White House Press Corpse just walked the plank. They might be willing to sympathize.
Cannot say what I’m thinking...
Unemployment is increasing, meaning tax revenues will decrease. And yet he looks at more and more areas to through money away.
Yep - he said he’s a “citizen of the world” who has come to “change the world.” I believe him.
Socialism will be defined in the next few days by Barry....what he will call it will be “the new deal” or something he has gleaned from past authority figures to further his cause as to make it sound authentic. Libs will love it,
You’re not alone
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Being poor in the US is luxury, compared to being poor in Mexico.
No wonder they want to come here, FGS.
BTTT
Think I found a new one for your Obama is stupid list.
The U.S. is about to become the state of California.
Illegals already get free healthcare.
With Mexico south of San Diego, the illegals here
and the ones who cross cost S.D. mega millions a year just on health care. Just go to the ERs
Then you have the illegals who cross over when ready to have their kid. To go ER, have the kid being born in U.S.
is now an American Citizen and the mom, kid, etc get welfare, foodstamps, etc.
This goes on by the thousands a year for years and years.
This goes on all through Calif.
So right! We have more CROOKS in US Congress, State, Cities and those working for them than we have in PRISION in USA!
We need a Boston Tea Party on 98% of all elected officials and those who work for them.
It’s way past time for all American to wake up......if not we not have a country at all very much longer.
What a DumbAs* headline. Tell me the names of any mexican national that has not been getting free health care. They been dropping those little ilegals like clock work for a long time now.
What a DumbAs* headline. Tell me the names of any Mexican national, are from any other country, that has not been getting free health care. They’ve been dropping those little illegals like clock work for a long time now.
We can go to the new White House blog and express our opinions on his policies - if he will actually care.
I really believe that tearing this Country down was BHO’s aim the whole time. The destruction of America is what all his terrorists friends and racists mentors want. They are the ones who groomed him just for this express purpose. I am sure they are the ones who funded his education and bought him the senate seat in Illinois. Now its time for BHO to do the things that he was groomed to do. They didnt pay his way up the ladder for nothing.
That’s all right, Madison. I’ll bet we are both thinking the same thing. And I’ll bet we aren’t the only ones.
Oh America. What have you done?
Now we need to have those folks tell us how much better Obama is than McCain. We defeated McCain and Bush’s amnesty but Obama will try it again with Pelosi and Reid.
He’s done quite a bit in four days including stalling on Gitmo terrorist prosecutions, ramping up abortion rhetoric, trying to push the gay agenda to stop DOMA, more gays in the military and now this.
Please, for the sake of the U.S.A., some court at least subpoena his dang vault birth certificate so we can at least verify if he’s even legally in the job.
That cannot possibly be too much to ask ...
And McCain will be leading Obama's immigration reform charge. In fact, he already is. Backstabbing bastard.
He won’t be done until the wealth of 235 years is depleted.
Except it isn't tea that we need to throw in the water...
Obama and friends are going to accomplish what Ayers and the other America-haters and the Islamic Terrorists haven’t been able to accomplish... destroy America. And he is going to do it from the inside...having been put in the position by over 50% of Americans. What does that say about over half of the US?
Perhaps the complete and absolute collapse of California due to the government support of illegal immigration has escaped him. He is, after all, too busy celebrating himself and running around drunk with power to actually, you know, do some actual work.
We said that in 2004 - and the overwhelming comment here when folks talked about jumping to a 3rd party - "NO, that won't help. It will get John Kerry elected. We have to work within the system and take back the Republican Party".
Well - we tried that and the party shifted further left (and got its but handed to it).
Why didn’t the Republican try to stop this? This is a winning issue, especially in times like these with people losing their homes and jobs.
Where the hell you ask is Republican leadership? Where’s our talk radio personalities? Hussein needs to be embarrassed and our push back needs to begin.
SCHIP is also known as the HEALTHY FAMILY PROGRAM,
familys have to pay a small premium and a 5.00 copay for dr visits.
The United States of Mexifornia
I don’t think Obama is better than McCain or visa versa.
As far as I’m concerned, they are the flip side of the SAME coin.
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why? we can’t even afford to cover ourselves?
I don’t think McCain would have rushed to try to boost abortion and attack DOMA like Obamessiah.
It’s stuff like this that will be passed at midnight sessions and then we will read about it a week later.
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