[LucyT]

Granny, from the article:

Republicans Require Health Insurance for Immigrants Only

This month, Congress will consider an immigration reform bill introduced by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ). A component of the bill would require employers to provide health insurance to all workers who are registered immigrants. To be sure, immigrants who lawfully enter the country to work, and who pay taxes, should have access to health insurance. But this bill is poorly reasoned and has the potential to create tremendous problems.

Although the bill will mandate that employers provide health insurance coverage to immigrants, this is a luxury that no American enjoys. Employers are not required to provide health insurance to citizens.
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The immigration reform bill, by mandating that employers provide health insurance to their immigrant workers, would have a disastrous effect on American workers.

Some employers, perhaps even many, would simply discontinue providing health insurance benefits to its workers who are citizens.

This would be the easiest way for employers to offset health care costs.

[GOPJ]

The Threat Matrix thread is not for the faint of heart! Thanks for the information on adaware etc...

[nw_arizona_granny]

I think Arizona needs a new slate of elected crooks.

The efforts to ruin America continue to happen.

The illegal problems becomes a larger problem, every day.

It is the enemy within that allows the illegal to have benefits that we citizens do not.

I don't have any answers on this, the open border is a danger to all of us, disease, terrorists, gangs and crooks,
are reasons enough to close it.

[MamaDearest]

the bill would require employers to provide health insurance to all workers who are registered immigrants.... Employers are not required to provide health insurance to citizens.

This is utterly outrageous. Millions of Americans (many work at jobs that provide no health insurance) who would love these legislators to require their employers to provide health insurance. What about American citizens being FIRST?

If it were required that "immigrants" have health checks after entering our country, it would be futile because they typically "disappear" and communicable diseases are not diagnosed until they are spread wherever the immigrants settle?

This is a border control / immigration issue, not one that should be subsidized by American employers. Will this type of legislation push even more American businesses over the edge and force them to move their operations to Mexico or overseas? My guess is Yes.