Posted on 10/04/2019 6:56:15 PM PDT by blueyon
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Friday that will require immigrants to prove they can obtain health insurance before they are issued a visa.
The proclamation — the latest in a series of moves that would restrict immigration — says immigrants must demonstrate they will have health insurance within 30 days of entering the country or that they can afford to cover any medical expenses.
The White House touted the proclamation as "protecting health care benefits for American citizens," arguing that uninsured immigrants create a financial burden for hospitals and doctors, forcing them to charge higher fees for Americans to cover the cost.
"People who come here shouldn’t immediately be on public assistance," a senior administration official told POLITICO. "We should bring people here who contribute and not drain resources."
The move also combines two hot-button political issues — immigration and health care — in the run-up to the 2020 elections. Most Democratic presidential candidates have said they support providing health care to undocumented immigrants. Trump mocked that stance on Twitter while Democrats debated in June.
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Yep...make them carry their own weight.
I thought this forum was against insurance mandates.
Immigrants can probably buy special insurance packages from their own countries.
Akin to using the EPA to go after San Francisco’s filth.
Brilliant.
And delicious.
Hey. Nothing wrong with using the Federal Government when it’s backing common-sense positions.
Only a jackass or a Democrat (but then I repeat myself) would find a problem with this statement that would have been considered self-evident before we began electing A-holes who are hell-bent on flooding this country will peasant invaders.
Well said.
You could buy these policies from the same travel agent who sold you the airline ticket or even at the departure airport.
Health insurance mandates should be for citizens only, not immigrants. /s
What’s interesting about this edict is that I believe it only applies to LEGAL immigrants ... because I’m pretty sure an illegal immigrant can’t buy insurance coverage in the U.S.
POTUS needs to close the border to ALL immigration for 10 years!
And, round up EVERY illegal alien and sendem home!
Trump needs to blitz all sorts of stuff like this. The MSM will hardly pick it up and the dems are busy with more important work like impeachment. :-)
I say he should go full tilt aggressive.
Trump Implementing Obamacare! I LIKE IT!!!
Yup.
Useless. It doesn’t take 30 days to get to an emergency room where they will get treatment for anything.
The current law says that any immigrants should not be a “public charge,” that is they should not require benefits from the government. Trump is just enforcing that law. It needs to apply to ALL forms of government assistance. The USA is already deeply in debt and has already over-promised to its citizens. Giving free healthcare, education and other public assistance to illegal immigrants will, in the end, keep the government from fulfilling its promises to its citizens that it has already made.
Now start the serious bailing to get the 30 million already here out.
Illegal aliens using the emergency room for doctor visits and skipping out is costing all of us.
Get the uninsured illegals off our highways as well, especially vthe ones who refuse to learn english.
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