Posted on 04/16/2013 10:34:43 AM PDT by jazusamo
A little noticed provision of the Obama health law is likely to become a big roadblock to immigration reform. Obamacare makes legal immigrants eligible for subsidized private health plans on the exchanges, regardless of how recently they arrived.
The Gang of Eight immigration plan — proposed by four Republican and four Democratic U.S. senators — is expected to double the number of legal immigrants coming into the country over the next decade. That would add at least $100 billion and possibly $200 billion to the cost of Obamacare health plan subsidies, depending on how many new arrivals don't get covered through an employer.
Key to the Gang of Eight plan is the pledge that illegal immigrants will go to the "back of line," behind people who have applied for green cards to obtain permanent legal residence in the U.S. The plan says illegals will be allowed to start applying for green cards in a decade.
Meanwhile, a staggering 4.5 million people are in that line. It's19 years long on average, according to the Migration Policy Institute at New York University Law School, and as long as 24 years for a sister or brother coming from the Philippines.
Right now, half a million people enter the U.S. yearly with permanent visas (green cards). The Gang of Eight will have to double that figure to a million a year in order to keep the promise that the backlog will be gone before illegals step into the line for green cards.
These legal newcomers will be eligible for Obamacare. Two years ago, Obamacare's authors wanted to avoid the longstanding federal requirement that newcomers wait five years to be eligible for Medicaid. So they made legal immigrants immediately eligible for subsidized private health plans on the insurance exchanges.
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MARCO RUBIO...LMAO! a real tea partier,eh?
Amnesty = Free Obamacare for millions. Costing us $200 Billion more.
Does anyone believe otherwise?
Yep, he sure was until he got elected, he’s a scammer.
I think Rubio got to Washington and they said “Here’s how things work” and he is on-board now.
He sounds fine on TV, but he is a young kid. (and I am only 55)
Where are the grown-ups (I mean the ones who have NOT been in office screwing things up for the last 30 years)
Someone bring back Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for cryin’ out loud.
Agreed...We need people in there who care about our Constitution instead of their next election.
It’ll make the costs of every government program soar. Just the cost of buying votes I guess.
Probably the dumbest thing anyone can say now: “Marco Rubio is a Conservative”
That Hispano Racist would sell his family to Mexican Drug Cartels if he could get Illegal Alien Amnesty passed
Marco Rubio supported Illegal Alien Amnesty before he got to Washington.
When he was Speaker of Florida House, he killed many bills that would have given FL laws like Arizona
But, people rather listened to the spin of Amnesty Liberals like Sean Hannity instead of the facts
Money is no object when you are a senator looking out for the interests of foreigners. Screw racist Americans. The Senators are citizens of the world.
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