Green Introduces Bill to Grant Illegal Aliens Complete Access to Health Care Services

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[Klickitat]

Green Introduces Bill to Grant Illegal Aliens Complete Access to Health Care Services

Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) introduced legislation on Oct. 8 which would allow states and localities to provide taxpayer-funded primary and preventive health care services to all legal and illegal aliens. His bill, H.R. 3273, would amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (welfare reform), which prohibits public hospitals from providing free or discounted preventive services to illegal aliens with state or local funds.

If enacted, this legislation would be a nightmare for taxpayers, who would be forced to foot the bill for medical expenses incurred by illegal aliens. The law already provides these lawbreakers with emergency medical services. Now our lawmakers want to give some 8 to 11 million illegal aliens complete access to our health care system, while many of our nation's citizens remain uninsured and without care.

Contact your elected officials and urge them to oppose H.R. 3273 and all efforts to provide benefits to illegal aliens.

H.R. 3273

To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to allow States and localities to provide primary and preventive care to all individuals. (Introduced in House)

HR 3273 IH

108th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 3273

To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to allow States and localities to provide primary and preventive care to all individuals.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 8, 2003

Mr. GREEN of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

A BILL

To amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to allow States and localities to provide primary and preventive care to all individuals.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PERMITTING STATES AND LOCALITIES TO PROVIDE PRIMARY AND PREVENTIVE CARE TO ALL INDIVIDUALS.

(a) IN GENERAL- Section 411(b)(1) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1621(b)(1)) is amended by inserting `or for primary and preventive care' after `Act)'.

(b) EFFECTIVE DATE- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply to primary and preventive care furnished before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

[TLI]

Bullseye.

[FITZ]

It shows no sign of ending ---- go stand out at the border entry points at 7:30 am and see the thousands of Mexicans coming over with cars, trucks and vans filled with kids to come and use American schools for free. The local taxpayers long lost the ability to keep up with the free health care and education ---- the State of Texas and the US government have been bailing out the county hospitals and public schools for many years now ---- basically just accepting that we provide for Mexico what they don't wish to provide for themselves.

[hsmomx3]

This really irks me. How many Americans simply cannot afford health care? We're giving away everything but the kitchen sink to illegals.

[Badray]

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[calawah98]

What a country, these politicans are leaving to you, my grandkids, and great grandkids.
My heart goes out to all of you, I fax, send emails, phone and it is getting to the point where I wonder, what is the use. But that is excatly
what they want, for every one to get discouraged, and just quit.
I had some one tell me one time, Lord you are stubborn, I would sure hate to be the one to try and get you to change your mind. lol
I think the reason the elderly are so opposed to all this illegal immigration, is because we lived when politicans, followed through on their oath of upholding our laws, and enforcing them.
Hang in there, it will be the likes of you that carries the torch, when the old die and are no longer here to carry on the fight.

[Doe Eyes]

Rep. Gene Green (D-TX) must be one of those "States Rights" clowns. The Federal Government must rule the states for their own good.

[Klickitat]

Thank you for sticking with it and keeping up the good fight. It is hard. Neither political party is with us. No one in the media is with us. Even the conservative media doesn't treat it as a mainstream or important issue. But 85% of Americans consider illegal immigration a serious problem. They don't act mainly because the leftist media forestalls debate by painting the issue in terms where if you don't support the illegals, you are intolerant, selfish, racist, etc. That, combined with the fact that Americans are probably the most charitable people on earth causes many people to avoid confronting the problem if that means appearing cold hearted or prejudiced.

Those of us who've done the research and have come to the realization that this massive foreign invasion is severely damaging our country have to keep on informing people; friends, coworkers, relatives. And we have to keep on with the emails, faxes, letters, and phone calls to our govt officials.

[SCalGal]

Why don't we just give free medical care to all peoples in Mexico, why stop there?? How about all peoples of South America??

It's not just Mexico. I learned during my stint in a disaster site after the Northridge Earthquake, that people were coming from the middle east (among other places) for our "free" medical care. They'd fly in, stay with relatives, collect welfare and medical (in CA), then fly home after their planned surgery.

[goldstategop]

We can't afford it. Right now many hospitals and clinics are already closing their doors due to the cost of uncompensated care for illegal aliens. Representative Gene Green's bill will simply accelerate the trend. The losers will be American citizens and permanent U.S residents who need critical care but won't be able to get it if there's no hospital or clinic to go to. Green's bill is another example of the elite's disconnect from the public on the issue of illegal immigration.