Posted on 04/20/2023 7:34:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
‘There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants,” President Obama said in pitching his signature national health-care program to a joint session of Congress. “This, too, is false.”
Now, President Biden is looking, in effect, to prove Wilson was right about the law.
Biden has announced plans to use administrative action to make DACA recipients eligible for Medicaid and Obamacare. DACA, of course, is the administrative amnesty that Obama imposed after Congress refused to pass the Dream Act. The recipients are several hundred thousand people who illegally came here, or claim to have come here, when they were minors. The Obama administration simply decided to stop enforcing the immigration laws against this category of immigrants. Needless to say, Congress has never acted to formally grant legal status to DACA recipients, and the program has been subject to legal action since Obama first took executive action.
Obamacare limits eligibility to those who are citizens or those who are “lawfully present.” Because DACA recipients lack legal status, they should not be eligible. In fact, the Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services explained in great detail why these immigrants wouldn’t be eligible. Now, Biden is making them eligible anyway. In a fact sheet, the White House says, “The Department of Health and Human Services will shortly propose a rule amending the definition of ‘lawful presence,’ for purposes of Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage, to include DACA recipients.” The administration aims to have the rule released by the end of the month, because “every day counts.”
In political terms, the administration obviously hopes to create more facts on the ground that will pressure Congress to pass a version of the Dream Act if DACA ultimately falls in the courts.
The move is part of a familiar pattern with Biden of issuing executive actions to satisfy certain constituents, only to demagogue any legal hurdles as coming from a rogue right-wing Supreme Court. Other examples include the eviction moratorium, the large-employer vaccine mandate, and his student-loan-forgiveness program.
Without seeing the actual language of the rule, it is difficult to consider how vulnerable this action is to legal challenge. After all, Obamacare was notorious for granting sweeping discretionary powers to the secretary of Health and Human Services, yet everyone was absolutely clear that it had nothing to do with DACA recipients.
If anyone is still so naïve, it’s another example of progressive administrations playing by Animal House rules — “you f***ed up, you trusted us.”
No hospital is allowed to turn anyone away who shows up in their emergency room.
he obviously wants to increase the voter base.
This is what you get when congress doesn't do its job with appropriations bills. Omnibus spending bills are merely a way to circumvent appropriations debate and feed the regulatory branch which is controlled entirely by the executive branch.
They want to cut SS and MC but sure! let’s give Obamacare to undeserving illegal immigrants. Evil jackals.
It’s called the Dream Act because you have to be dreaming to think there’s enough money to pay for all the illegals’ free stuff.
> Biden has announced plans to use administrative action… <
Sometimes I wonder why we even have a Congress anymore. Presidents these days (both D and R) seem to be ruling by decree. They spend billions, start wars, etc. all on their own. And nobody cares.
I thought the azhos came here looking for an asylum, not a hospital. The bass turds don’t pay taxes, if they need healthcare, they can go the hell back to where they came from and get it. They are not the children of American taxpayers. They are not our responsibility. They are not Americans. They are loser refugees who elected the wrong bass turds in the own countries and are now coming here to do the same thing. Lock Biden up. Deport the illegals. Let’s go Brandon! FJB.
Works for the Rats in California.
“you f***ed up, you trusted us.”
As they will find out after the election it happens every time with democrats the hive of scum.
Biden wants nothing of the kind. He doesn’t even know where he is. He knows his name that’s about it. Everyone knows this
In every other of these unconstitutional legislation they attribute to him it’s “The White House Wants…”
The real stinkers like this one tgey pin solely on him
Their voters are stupid and they think we are too
There are many reasons they’re giving most favored group status to illegals, the worst of which we may never want to know
But this is to Bering them in.
This is how you kill a nation. Open borders and welfare state will bankrupt a nation. That F’n traitor Biden and the rest of the rats know this and they don’t care
This is how you kill a nation. Open borders and welfare state will bankrupt a country. That F’n traitor Biden and the rest of the rats know this and they don’t care
Currently, health care service availability is strained in many areas across our fine nation.
Providing millions of illegal aliens with health care means (one strongly suspects) that they will be crowding into waiting rooms and will be smothering availability, pushing appointments and surgery schedules farther back, often ahead of you and your children.
As for quality of care? You guessed it.
“Who will clean our homes?”
Elections have consequences.
Everything that the Biden administration does was enabled by RINOs and the people who voted for those RINOs. They undermined Trump for 4 years and facilitated the fraudulent elections.
This is why emergency rooms and urgent centers have closed up and down my state (California) - from hordes of non-paying illegals that the hospitals, by law, cannot turn away.
I had to take my daughter to an Urgent Care center to clear her to return to school. The center was loaded with illegals who had driven or taken a bus into the area - so many they were sitting on the steps outside. Had to wait about an hour and it took less than a minute for a health worker to clear her.
Drove by the same Urgent Care a few months later and it was closed.
This is when McCarthy rams through Congress the PEACE Act
Public Emplee Affordable Care Enrollment Act, mandating all Non Military Federal Employee’s enroll in Obamacare for their primary insurance at their own expense and removes all federal funds from any State that does not have 100% of their employee’s enrolled in Obamacare.
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