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RomneyCare provided public aid to undocumented immigrants
Tue, 10/25/2011 - 11:14am | posted by Chris Frashure
Mitt Romney has been hitting his key opponent, Rick Perry, relentlessly for his decision to allow undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition in Texas. Romney even made the issue into a campaign ad:
The former Massachusetts governor has stated that the educational benefits offered by the state of Texas act as an incentive to draw more undocumented immigrants across the border:
“You put in place a magnet — you talk about magnets — you put in place a magnet to draw illegals into the state, which is giving $100,000 of tuition credit to illegals that come into this country. And then you have states, the big states of illegal immigrants are California and Florida. Over the last 10 years, they’ve had no increase in illegal immigration. Texas has had 60 percent increase in illegal immigrants.”
Now we learn, via the LA Times, that the healthcare reform that Governor Romney ushered in during his tenure in Massachusetts, colloquially referred to as RomneyCare, contained a provision that provided public aid to undocumented immigrants:
The Massachusetts healthcare law that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.
Uninsured, poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.
The Massachusetts health care plan has been a weight around the neck of the former governor throughout the 2012 GOP race primarily for the individual mandate that forces individuals to purchase insurance or pay a fine – the same measure that makes Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act so reviled among constitutionalists and limited governmental activists. Recently, NBC revealed that some of Governor Romney’s very own advisors helped to craft the federal plan, linking it ever more closely with the Massachusetts plan, much to Romney’s chagrin and despite his attempts to mold a schism between the two. Now comes the revelation of yet another piece of the legislation that once again paints Romney as a hypocrite. One must wonder how the governor will respond to criticisms that this sort of public aid serves as a “magnet to draw illegals into the state.”
The day prior to signing the Massachussets healthcare plan into law, Romney penned an article in the Wall Street Journal in which he derided the “free-rider problem” and attempted to explain how the individual mandate included in his plan would solve it:
Another 40% of the uninsured were earning enough to buy insurance but had chosen not to do so. Why? Because it is expensive and because they know that if they become seriously ill, they will get free or subsidized treatment at the hospital. By law, emergency care cannot be withheld. Why pay for something you can get for free?
Of course, while it may be free for them, everyone else ends up paying the bill, either in higher insurance premiums or taxes. The solution we came up with was to make private health insurance much more affordable. Insurance reforms now permit policies with higher deductibles, higher co-pays, coinsurance, provider networks and fewer mandated benefits like in vitro fertilization — and our insurers have committed to offer products nearly 50% less expensive. With private insurance finally affordable, I proposed that everyone must either purchase a product of their choice or demonstrate that they can pay for their own health care. It’s a personal responsibility principle.
Some of my libertarian friends balk at what looks like an individual mandate. But remember, someone has to pay for the health care that must, by law, be provided: Either the individual pays or the taxpayers pay. A free ride on government is not libertarian.
I couldn’t agree more, Governor.
Illegal immigration, E-Verify and Voter Fraud.
The American people, especially citizens need to feel secure, when they vote in 2011. In a recent check by the Texas Secretary of State’s offices, have indicated that 600,000 registered voters lack a valid driver’s license or state issued identification card. This should not be unexpected since Texas does not require presentation of identification when registering to vote, with many other states that are in the same flexible situation. This is outrageously reckless and is apparent throughout this nation, which illegal aliens have been voting. This is proving to be a major problem that is not an isolated case with our federal election system. Time and time again, mostly by Democratic, there have been incidents of voter fraud. The center of our government must do something about this issue, but remain unconcerned with the consequences of illegal aliens voting in a presidential election, specifically through easy access and manipulation of absentee ballots.
The Texas legislature recently passed a bill sponsored by Senator Troy Fraser (R-Horseshoe Bay) which will require voters to show valid ID at the polls, such as a driver’s license, state concealed handgun permit, U.S. military ID or a U.S. passport. But guess what, the regulation is being held up by the Justice Department. The DOJ claims at this time are reviewing the measure on grounds of possible discrimination against minorities. So we have to ask ourselves—will they still be reviewing the law, before another Texas state election or even the presidential 2012 race?
In 2010, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board released figures showing that during the 2009 fall semester, more than 12,000 illegal aliens paid in-state tuition rates at state schools throughout Texas. Many of them also received taxpayer-funded financial aid, which will be comparable circumstances in California as the state is crippled by overwhelming financial woes.
When is our government going to do, what the people say and not the communist founded ACLU, the open border or the special interest groups that thrive in ‘K’ Street Washington. Is there a line outside with politicians waiting for a clandestine financial hand outs. I personally think the only way that we can change the disastrous direction of the United States is the TEA PARTY. Not the high wealthy rollers as with Rick Perry, nor perhaps Mitt Romney, as they are not true TEA PARTY members, but wealthy candidates, who crave an honest leader in the presidential race. My vote will undeniably go to Herman Cain, or possibly Newt Gingrich or even Michele Bachmann. Our ‘Rule of Law’ has gone flying out the window, thanks to the leftist view of running a government, but essentially we must contain this giant behemoth or it will be expanded larger than the private section. The Democrats are selling our grand children’s future, with higher tax rates, to not only pay for our own share of poverty suffering people, but millions of illegal alien strangers who have flooded this country.
We have a government offering little or no assistance in controlling this lawless welfare virulent disease. What chance do we have of overseeing our own impoverished people, when we are forced by the courts to give foreign people cash payments, medical care, low income housing and other public assistance? Why should a baby of a illegal alien mother get free hospital care, when an American mother no matter their financial standing are hunted down for payment? YOU CANNOT ACCEPT THE LIES SPAWNED FROM THE MOUTHS OF BOTH LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS, THOSE ILLEGAL ALIENS CANNOT COLLECT CITIZEN AND LEGAL RESIDENT WELFARE BENEFITS.
If you are sick of our incompetent government in Washington, we can change this plan and vote for strictly for House and Senate TEA PARTY representatives for the American people. Not for big corporations, defense industry and the wealthy who have obscured the path of our legislative leaders. Start today by troubling the House and Means politicians, who are reluctant or intentionally delaying the ‘The Legal Workforce Act’ known as bill (H.R. 2885.) Contact Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) ((202-225-0600) and inform his aids, that you are a voter and you insist of bringing Rep. Lamar Smiths ‘The Legal Workforce Act’ to the floor in the next session of Congress. Just by harassing these GOP leaders, we can and will empty 8 million illegal alien jobs and return them to American workers.
This is the divisive E-Verify that will literary starve-out illegal immigrant from job placement. E-Verify must not be watered down, but enforced mandatory and with no loopholes for large companies, that seems to be a fact with corporations getting waivers in Obamacare. It’s significant to learn that the 20-25 million illegal aliens already illegally settled here would also get health care from this nationwide plan of this administration. There are plenty of information resources at NumbersUSA, (FAIR) Federation for Immigration Reform, Judicial Watch and hundreds of pro-sovereignty groups.
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The Democrats are selling our grand children’s future, with higher tax rates, to not only pay for our own share of poverty suffering people, but millions of illegal alien strangers who have flooded this country. Hard Links
. The center of our government must do something about this issue, but remain unconcerned with the consequences of illegal aliens voting in a presidential election, specifically through easy access and manipulation of absentee ballots. 3pl conference
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