Cuba
Junior Member
MSNBC is doing a live chat with Chuck Todd right now, I submitted my question, they posted it, and he answered it. Here it is:
[Comment From Nick]
Chuck what specific provisions are included to ensure that illegal aliens will not be covered under the healthcare proposals? My understanding is that although they are technically excluded there is no mechanism to prevent this- probably why the gentleman from SC was so upset by the president's comments this week.
Chuck Todd: Nick: Square this circle for me: how do you guarantee that an illegal immigrant does not get care from a public hospital? Do we need to have national I.D. cards to get a doctor to treat an emergency? How will THAT go over? I'm not sure we can always be legislating for the negative, meaning, this idea that we have to make sure we don't do something that is already against the law... seems odd.
I asked a simple question, and the answer I got was that there is no provision for keeping illegals from being covered under the healthcare plan!!!! He just stated that thinking about actually enforcing our laws "SEEMS ODD", wtf man!?!
[Comment From Nick]
Chuck what specific provisions are included to ensure that illegal aliens will not be covered under the healthcare proposals? My understanding is that although they are technically excluded there is no mechanism to prevent this- probably why the gentleman from SC was so upset by the president's comments this week.
Chuck Todd: Nick: Square this circle for me: how do you guarantee that an illegal immigrant does not get care from a public hospital? Do we need to have national I.D. cards to get a doctor to treat an emergency? How will THAT go over? I'm not sure we can always be legislating for the negative, meaning, this idea that we have to make sure we don't do something that is already against the law... seems odd.
I asked a simple question, and the answer I got was that there is no provision for keeping illegals from being covered under the healthcare plan!!!! He just stated that thinking about actually enforcing our laws "SEEMS ODD", wtf man!?!