Why health care is so costly (Schlafly - Illegal Aliens)

Townhall.com ^ | January 28th, 2003 | Phyllis Schlafly

[cpdiii]

The real solution is to have a law declaring unfunded mandates from Washington are illegal. Actually under the Constitution they are illegal. I would love to see a court case go to the Supreme Court on this.

Unfunded mandates from Washington are actually a Federal Tax on the States. This is illegal.

[Jim Noble]

>> and the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, which mandates that U.S. hospitals with emergency-room services treat anyone who shows up for care, including illegal aliens<<

The problem with this is that the whole thing is a fantasy, not just the illegal alien part.

Emergency Room services have been nationalized, with a zero dollar appropriation for the National Free Emergency Room Program.

This is a formula for disaster. It has closed, and is closing today, many small and rural hospitals. More will follow.

And this would be true even if there were no illegal aliens.

[Mr. Bungle]

"The real solution is to have a law declaring unfunded mandates from Washington are illegal. Actually under the Constitution they are illegal. I would love to see a court case go to the Supreme Court on this. "

Bingo. Good idea.

[justanotherfreeper]

bump for later reading

[nicmarlo]

Let's put this on the "ignored by President Bush's State of the Union Address" list, too.

Said to say, but it's true. Ping and Bump

[LuisBasco]

A big bump for Mrs. Schlafly!

[Chi-Town Lady]

"They introduced a bill to hit the U.S. taxpayers for $200 million for medical treatment of illegal aliens."

It's ok to hit the taxpayers for $200 million for the illegals medical care and then have the audacity to try and cut funding to the border patrol & the INS. Something is definitely wrong with this picture. Personally I think that the $200 million should be used to build a BIG wall across the southern border states. Enough is Enough!

[dansangel]

We are talking about Mexicans with serious health problems who are deliberately sent to the United States after Mexican hospitals discover they can't pay for services and have no insurance.

Ridiculous! Also the fact that we have offered them free medical equipment but they turn that down in favor of sending the patients here.

Why is anything to do with illegal aliens, particularly Mexicans, such a sensitive hands-off subject?

Get out the KY jelly...we seem to enjoy bending over.....

[VOA]

Why health care is so costly (Schlafly - Illegal Aliens)

At the time that Hillary! and her group were hammering out "Hillary-Care",
news commentator Paul Harvey reported that it was rumored that the reason the
deliberations were taking so long was...
...Hillary couldn't get the numbers on the plan to look palatible to working/tax-paying
legal citizens...and still deliver free/cheap care to illegal aliens.

That's just my (probably incomplete/inaccurate) recollection from years ago...

[nicmarlo]

Why is anything to do with illegal aliens, particularly Mexicans, such a sensitive hands-off subject?

It isn't with Sean Hannity, but it certainly is with our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES.....who, on this matter, WON'T DO THEIR JOBS!!! (Upholding the Constitution by defending our borders comes to mind.)

[janetgreen]

BTTT for Phyllis. Great article. I'll send it to my Senators (Boxer & Feinstein) and my Rep (Harman), none of whom will agree with it. I am in Dim country, but I keep trying to make them listen.

[tom paine 2]

bump

[squibs]

Amnesty my A$$ !!!!!

[SCalGal]

We don't as a nation want to send these people home.

Don't presume to speak for the rest of us.

No amnesty, ever. If you give it to a few, we'll be flooded with more illegals.

[MissAmericanPie]

It's pretty galling to hear these growing calls from business and government to respect and hold in esteem the fact that these people may hold alot of love and longing for their failed cultures while they pick our pockets.

Along with the new socialist mantra that just because people are cramming themselves into this country doesn't mean that everyone wants to be an American, or that they don't hold their former address in higher regard, and we are suppose to respect that also. Not to mention business's like Boeing huffing and puffing that Americans are not entitled by birth to their standard of living while they ship jobs over seas to support failed cultures and peoples.

The worm will turn, it always does.

[Red Jones]

if the government checks the payroll information that employers already report to determine who is an illegal alien and then informs the employer that they can't hire that person, then we will not have significant numbers of illegals in the economy. Amnesty is irrelevant to this.

[SCalGal]

The last time I was in Mexico (June, 2002) there were billboards with "Amnistia" and USA on them. If amnesty is so irrelevant, how would you explain this?

Just checking payroll tax records isn't enough. You'll miss all those "under the table" employees.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Let's put this on the "ignored by President Bush's State of the Union Address" list, too.

There wont be a wisper of this.

[Joe Hadenuf]

California, in all probability, is getting just what it seems to want.

Then explain prop 187....

[sarasmom]

BTTT