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No one seems able to post the text of this amendment and I can't find it anywhere. I do think what you've said is probably true...there's something wrong with punishing real citizens dying and bleeding in the ER by making them cough up their citizenship papers.
That said, Medicare has requirements that verify citizenship and there is no reason to believe a public option would not operate in a similar manner.
Cripes, I've posted this thing so many times. Here:
http://blog.heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/heller-6.pdf
Everyone read this, will ya?
Among three House committees to pass bills for health reform, only one expressly bans federal funding for proving health coverage to illegal immigrants.
"The Congressional Research Service has indicated that indeed the bills that are before Congress would include illegal aliens," Wilson said. "And I think this is wrong."
Indeed, the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service study found that the House health care bill does not restrict illegal immigrants from receiving health care coverage.
House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner amplified the complaint that without proof of citizenship, illegal immigrants could be insured.
"There were two opportunities for House Democrats to make clear that illegal immigrants wouldn't be covered by putting in requirements to show citizenships," he said. "Both of those amendments were, in fact, rejected."
In the Senate, Democrats in the so called "Gang of Six," a group of bipartisan senators on the Senate Finance Committee which is the last panel yet to release its bill, began moving quickly to close the loophole that Wilson helped bring greater attention to.
Rep. Wilson Outburst Leads Senate Dems to Close Loophole in Health Reform Bill - Political News - FOXNews.com
The Dems twice shot down amendments to close the loophole. They didn't want anyone to bitch about it because they want illegals to get coverage so when they're fast tracked to citizens they'll vote Dem. Is this really so hard for everyone?
It is if you agree with the DemocRATS policies. Blame, Minimize, Deny, Obfuscate are the MO of Elites...Remember this.