Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Federal Responsibility for Immigrant Health Act (Bill O'Reilly)
foxnews.com ^ | Friday, June 21, 2002 | Bill O'Reilly

Posted on 06/23/2002 5:05:27 PM PDT by WakeUpChristian

Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight.

In just a few moments, Senator Jeff Bingaman will enter the No Spin Zone. But first, the Talking Points Memo, about a new bill that would require Americans to pay for the health care many illegal immigrants, a bill sponsored by Bingaman and Senator John McCain.


(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: immigrant
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-39 last
To: WakeUpChristian; lowbridge; ALOHA RONNIE; goldilucky
If you could tell me why it is fair, I'm willing to listen. It is unfair when millions of Americans have no health insurance for themselves that we American citizens have to pay $24 billion every year to people who sneak into this country when our elderly can't afford prescription drugs. Can you justify that, senator?

I'm trying to buy Health Insurance at this moment, and for *great* coverage it's over $300 a month! But lesser coverage is still over $100 a month, and I must then pay every cost out of pocket! Insurance won't even kick in until I spend $5000 in the year...oh, and if I spend $2500 I get the privledge of paying 30% of every bill!!!

Even an emergency will cost me $2500 just to go in!

And I'm an AMERICAN! What will happen when I'm one day a Senior Citizen? My rate schedule shows that coverage goes up $100+ every 10 years and even MORE if I ever use it! Everytime you "use" your insurance you are subject to Re-writing and that means your rates go up!

Right now I'm healthy, so the Insurance Co. takes my money and runs without really paying for anything.

Why should illegal border-crashers be able to go to the ER for free when citizens can't do that? If we go in the ER will send us a BILL! But the bill for illegals will go to the Taxpayers?

Oh, here's a another FUN insurance fact...Medical Coverage is Null and Void for any Terrorist act or spread of radiation.

I wonder if the Insurance Co.'s just added that exclusion after 9-11?

21 posted on 06/23/2002 11:29:16 PM PDT by Joy Angela
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Illbay
Before the folks who think we should just machine-gun 'em at the border weigh in,

I just love the way you "poison the well". Your time at the Carville-Begala School of Rhetoric was well spent.

22 posted on 06/23/2002 11:37:43 PM PDT by Pelham
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Illbay
Nor the political will to lose all that cheap labor for their $ buddies.
23 posted on 06/24/2002 12:13:11 AM PDT by brat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: WakeUpChristian
O'Reilly gets it right sometimes and this is a sometime.
24 posted on 06/24/2002 12:36:01 AM PDT by doglot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: lowbridge; All
But the federal government is really us. We pay all the bills.

Yep, he has that right...

Want to tell lots of people about this? Go here:

Ignorance Making You Ill? Cure It!

for links, tools, & instructions about how to contact a pile of different people, and how to send a link to this story right here ( or anywhere else ) to a "mass email" using Outlook Express.

25 posted on 06/24/2002 1:48:23 AM PDT by backhoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: WakeUpChristian
"Unless we do something significant to control our borders, we're going to have another event with someone waltzing across the borders..."

I'm starting to believe that Congress may in fact want these types of events to occur. After all, the effect would give more excuse for governmental control.
26 posted on 06/24/2002 3:11:14 AM PDT by truth_session
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: truth_session
I agree. Government wants people to become co-dependent, that way they'll be easier to control.
27 posted on 06/24/2002 3:15:05 AM PDT by 4America
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Joy Angela
Maybe we should leave the country and come back as illegals. We'd get free healthcare and can claim a ton of dependents on our income taxes after we buy our fraudulent id papers and the like. In time Congress will be powerless because all its constituents will have disappeared.

:)
28 posted on 06/24/2002 3:17:48 AM PDT by truth_session
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: 4America
So true.
29 posted on 06/24/2002 3:19:29 AM PDT by truth_session
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: WakeUpChristian
"Well, that's just bunk. You know that's bunk. We're trying to see that the law is enforced"

Term limits, how do we get term limits? Can we have a nationwide vote on term limits and bypass the Congress and Senate?

30 posted on 06/24/2002 5:54:56 AM PDT by MissAmericanPie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Pelham
Pelham, I've had conversations here before where the response to me was "we ought to put up barbed-wire and machine gun nests, and just mow 'em down." So I'm not "poisoning the well" so much as posting a "WARNING: POISONED WELL" sign.
31 posted on 06/24/2002 6:10:22 AM PDT by Illbay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: truth_session
I was thinking about my rant last night, and it's just too bad that we have to have Health Insurance at all. The cost's of Medical Care are too high to pay out-of-pocket, as people used to do several decades ago.

The high cost of Medical Care is going to lead to a National Health Plan...and that will make it impossible to get GOOD care on top of the present high costs!

It's a tragedy that we are forced to pay such high premiums for little in return. Yet, the die has been cast. At this point what can a consumer do about it?

Illegals would be able to pay for their own care, if the ER and other services weren't so darn expensive! I used to work in a Hospital Billing department, and the bills were padded with costs like $3 for an Asprin, because the Insurance Co.s have contracts that they will only be billed a percentage of the total cost. A $30,000 stay in the hosptial would be contracted at only 60% of the cost! But Cash patients would be billed for the whole thing!

32 posted on 06/24/2002 6:19:35 AM PDT by Joy Angela
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Illbay
I agree with you that they do and will continue to show up. However, if they need medical care why can't they be transported to a MEXICAN hospital for care. After all they are Mexican citizens.
33 posted on 06/24/2002 9:46:10 AM PDT by Chi-Town Lady
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Joy Angela
I do not have health insurance of any kind. It is my contention that most insurance companies are frauds. If I have an injury, I pay it out of my own pocket. Screw the insurance business. They could care less about anybody.
34 posted on 06/24/2002 10:45:43 AM PDT by goldilucky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

Comment #35 Removed by Moderator

To: truth_session
Sadly, I believe you're right. It will take another huge loss of life at the hands of some America-Hater before the 'guilty-Liberals' will wake up and realize thieir asses are on the line as well.
36 posted on 06/24/2002 4:22:31 PM PDT by CIBvet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Joy Angela
Illegals shouldn't be here in the first place, much less steal our money through the government. But I blame our federal and local governments for stealing from the people who give the reps. the power to do what they do.

Most of our local and federal representatives have failed us on this issue of medical care.
37 posted on 06/24/2002 7:42:45 PM PDT by truth_session
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: goldilucky
I do not have health insurance of any kind. It is my contention that most insurance companies are frauds. If I have an injury, I pay it out of my own pocket. Screw the insurance business. They could care less about anybody.

As bad as insurance is, Blue Cross has plans that cover hospital stays for only $55 a month. You would have to pay most everything out of pocket, but for the BIG EMERGENCY you'd be covered. I also know of a Smart Care Plan (advertised on KRLA) that will allow you to pay cash, but at the same discount rate insurances get on their bills.

You might want to check it out at www.smartcareplan.com ! You can even get this plan for only $29 a month, with or without Hospital Coverage. Still, together that's less than $100!

That's better than the high rates people pay for complete coverage, plus you are protected for the big stuff.

Money, money...makes the world go round.

38 posted on 06/25/2002 12:52:05 AM PDT by Joy Angela
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Joy Angela
Thanks but seriously I do not like insurance companies and am doing well without them.
39 posted on 06/25/2002 6:02:20 PM PDT by goldilucky
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-39 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson