Illegal Aliens & Healthcare "It's unjust, unfair, and partial."

[WhiskeyGirl]

A good discussion with links -

The Post assumes illegals don't have access to medical care without insurance. However, many receive medical services from "safety net" providers whenever they wish. The federal EMTALA law guarantees that anyone without insurance can demand "emergency" medical care, regardless of immigration status, insurance status, or ability to pay. And that can have dire consequences for everyone else in a community – such as bankrupting hospitals in Southern California and Arizona, and causing cost-shifting that increases the health care costs of responsible people who are insured. See examples of the burden of illegal immigration on American health care here, here, here, and here.)

Post editors aren't much concerned whether illegal aliens receive taxpayer-funded subsidies in the exchange to pay their insurance premiums. Yet that subsidy, which the Senate makes some attempt to prevent from going to illegals, unjustly would force lawfully resident Americans to pay their own plus foreign lawbreakers' health premiums. Paying tax money for illegal aliens' emergency care already happens and remains unchanged in the legislation. That's bad enough. But forcing extra payment on the backs of people living here lawfully would unduly make illegal residents better off than they already are and in many cases better off than their American counterparts. It's effectively a reward for breaking immigration laws. It's unjust, unfair, and partial. And such "free" health care would increase even more the incentive to immigrate outside the law.

http://www.cis.org/edwards/illegalsexchange

I've read that in some countries, illegal aliens are felons.  I recall that two of Al Gore's friends were sentenced to hard labor in a prison camp in North Korea for breaching the border without permission.

Why does America give away welfare and free healthcare?

Why do taxpayers continue to be burdened with all the expenses and reap no benefits?

Why aren't taxpayers and citizens treated in a humane fashion? 

When will somone in Washington be on the side of taxpayers and those future generations that have to pay back all this Obama debt?

jmho

[Edward]