Posted on 03/19/2016 11:02:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton told attendees at a Utah campaign stop that her mother is eager to extend Obamacare "to people who are living and working here, regardless of immigration status, regardless of citizenship status."
The apparent promise to extend Obamacare to illegal immigrants came Tuesday at a campaign stop for Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton in Salt Lake City, where an unidentified man questioned Chelsea about the intersection of heath care and immigration policy.
"I'm a proud gay Latino immigrant, now a U.S. citizen. So I support your mom," the man said in a video of the encounter posted to YouTube by user Sebs De Freitas.
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The man explained that he works with illegal immigrants and many would like to purchase health insurance - "many can actually afford the health plan," he said - but the website to sign up for Obamacare in Utah asks about residency status, so they can't participate.
"Is she planning on expanding Obamacare as people know it, ACA, to include people who are not fully documented? Because when you get ill, your illness will not ask you if you are a permanent resident or not," the man said.
Of course she will, Chelsea said.
"It's such an important question. Thank you for supporting my mom," Chelsea said.
"My mom has very strong feelings that we must push as quickly as possible for comprehensive immigration reform, and this is a real difference between her's and Senator Sanders' record, she supported comprehensive immigration reform at every possible chance and she was one of the original supporters and sponsors of the DREAM Act. ...
"She does not believe that while we are working towards comprehensive immigration reform we should make people wait, like the families you are talking about," she continued. "Which is why she thinks it's so important to extend the Affordable Care Act to people who are living and working here, regardless of immigration status, regardless of citizenship status."
Chelsea also apparently saw an opportunity to take a shot at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, who has laid out a mirror opposite immigration policy that would deport illegal immigrants behind a massive wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. That wall, as everyone now knows, will be paid for by Mexico, Trump has repeatedly promised.
"While we're pushing for comprehensive immigration reform and reminding Republicans who are currently running for president that a couple of years ago they actually supported comprehensive immigration reform - something they seem to have forgotten during this election cycle - that we do whatever we can to solve challenges in the education system and the health system and elsewhere," Chelsea said.
Clinton has always dreamed of a universal health care system that includes folks who willfully ignore the country's immigration laws, Chelsea said.
"She has been on the right side of pushing for full health care inclusion really for as long as she's been pushing for universal healthcare."
Sounds staged as usual.
I guess Joe didn’t lie when he said, “You lie!”
I hope Hillary makes this the centerpiece of her campaign.
oh yeah illegal aliens can afford Obamacare health insurance while many American citizens cant
“As-Yet Unaccomplished Daughter of a disgraced Oral Office Occupant and the Leftist Liar With Blood On Her Hands Promises more and more taxpayer- paid Freebies To illegal Alien law -Breakers for their Illegal Votes, with Seditious Left- Wing media Cooperation” ——— there I fixed the headline
“The man explained that he works with illegal immigrants and many would like to purchase health insurance - “many can actually afford the health plan,” he said - but the website to sign up for Obamacare in Utah asks about residency status, so they can’t participate. “
Funny. Every illegal in CA knows how to milk the system for freebies and they couldnt figure out to get free healthcare? I call BS.
The Libbies will eat that up and ask for seconds, though.
....all scripted
What’s stopping them? There’s no citizenship test on buying a product... What could be that one little thing that would require such a...
OH, right, they don’t want to pay for it. They want taxpayers to pay for it, and THAT little detail is the holdup.
Oops.
What the hell is a Chelsea, and who gives a rat's elbow what she "promises?"
Did we have some crucial elections while I wasn't looking?
Wait.
Can she be one of several unindicted RICO co-conspirators of The Clinton Criminal Enterprises Inc.??
Chelsea has been told all her life that she is special and that all others are below her. And she includes herself in everything her parents do. “We” will do this and that.
Oh, how I despise these people.
“I’m a proud gay Latino immigrant .... so I support your mom.”
Apparently being gay, Latino and immigrant automatically makes you a democrats.
I guess that’s obvious to most people.
Orwellian, Clintonian doublespeak :
Comprehensive Immigration Reform = Arbitrary and Capricious unconstitutional Decision, to ignore all existing immigration Laws by Fiat, contrary to the expressed will of most American Citizens.
She just did.
Through her daughter, a criminal, unindicted RICO member of Clinton Criminal Enterprises, Inc.
A Chelsea is a piece of Chlamydia?
google: illegal mexican chlamydia fairys 'hwy 87 ariz'
Why don't we include the entire world under the crappy Obamacare? Anyone see anything wrong with that one? Why don't the good people of America who get up early every day to go to work support all the bums who don't, plus all the illiterate of other countries, plus the Martians we're sure to find, etc.?
I guess Joe didn’t lie when he said, “You lie!”
For those in Rio Linda, a reminder of who Joe is... and why what he said is so historically important.
"Rep. Joe Wilson, (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said his infamous cry of “You lie!” at President Obama has been vindicated.
"Wilson said an Obama administration decision on healthcare centers proves the president wasn’t telling the truth during a 2009 address to a joint session of Congress.
"In that address, the president pledged that the healthcare reform law would not cover illegal immigrants, prompting Wilson to shout, “You lie!”
"Wilson said Wednesday that a recent award of $28.8 million to 67 community healthcare centers around the country would inevitably end up benefiting illegal immigrants, contrary to Obama’s pledge."
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