Lots of observers believe the ObamaCare bills in Congress could wind up providing medical care to illegal aliens. For instance, some note the lack of enforcement mechanisms to go with rules that supposedly bar care for illegals.
But for just a moment, let’s give the benefit of the doubt to those who say the legislation would protect taxpayers from having to pay the medical bills of the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States. Is that any reassurance that we won’t wind up paying for their care anyway? Not really.
The trouble is, the administration and its allies in Congress intend to push this year for legislation granting legal status and a “path to citizenship” for illegal aliens.
Public outrage over similar proposals in Congress back in 2007 helped defeat those plans. But now, Democrats have stronger majorities in the House and Senate. And considering how they are ignoring opposition to ObamaCare socialized medicine, they do not seem likely to heed the strong public resistance to amnesty for illegals, either.
Once a new law magically makes illegal aliens “legal,” it would only be a matter of time before they would become eligible for ObamaCare. So technically, the Democrats might be able to claim they are not covering illegals — but only because they made them “legal.”
That is reason enough to oppose both ObamaCare and amnesty.