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THE SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL CONTAINS ILLEGAL ALIEN LOOPHOLES (Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell )

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Date: 2009-12-10, 9:24AM PST
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THE SENATE HEALTH CARE BILL CONTAINS ILLEGAL ALIEN LOOPHOLES



Help FAIR Ensure That Illegal Aliens

Won't Be Able to Access Taxpayer-Funded Benefits!

The Senate is currently considering the health care reform bill (H.R. 3590). As FAIR's Legislative Analysis concludes:

The Senate bill contains a loophole to allow illegal aliens to access taxpayer-funded health care benefits;

The Senate bill fails to effectively prevent illegal aliens from accessing the taxpayer-subsidized "exchange" marketplace; and

In a radical departure from current law, the Senate bill circumvents long-standing policies that would require legal immigrants to wait five years before accessing federal health care benefits.

As a result, the Senate health care bill promotes poor immigration policy and fails to protect the interests of the American taxpayers.

In addition, the Senate bill raises a new issue. Under the bill, low-income American citizens – those with income below 100% of federal poverty (FPL) – have only one option for their health insurance: Medicaid. At the same time, the bill gives similarly-situated legal aliens more health care choices than the American citizen. Legal aliens can receive the taxpayer-subsidy to choose whatever health insurance they want. This is fundamentally unfair. It treats immigrants better than American citizens.

But despite these issues, the Senate has not debated these provisions on the Senate floor. Fortunately, these problems and inequities can still be fixed.

FAIR has been working with two true immigration reformers in the Senate who intend to offer amendments to fix these problems.

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) will file an amendment that would:

Require the use of a meaningful and effective verification system to ensure that illegal aliens will not be able to access taxpayer-funded tax subsidies created by the bill;

Prevent illegal aliens from accessing the taxpayer-funded exchange to buy insurance; and

Maintain the 5-year waiting period in current law so that immigrants must pay into the system before they are able to receive taxpayer-funded health benefits. The 5-year waiting period is critical because it embodies the principle that immigrants should not become a public charge – or burden – to the American people.

In addition, Senator John Ensign (R-NV) has filed an amendment (Amdt. No. 3016) to ensure that American citizens would have the same choices for their health care as the bill gives legal immigrants. This will guarantee citizens are not treated unfairly.

These Senators need our help to ensure that:

Senate leadership will allow debate on these critical amendments; and

That each of these critical amendments will get a vote on the Senate floor.

FAIR needs your help! Please call the following members of Senate leadership:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) 202-224-2158
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) 202-224-9447
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) 202-224-3135
Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) 202-224-1507
We also need you to call your home-state Senators (for their phone numbers, click here).

Tell Senate Leadership and tell your own Senators:

I support any amendment that would prohibit illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer-subsidized health care benefits. The Senate bill does not include effective verification!!
I support the Sessions verification amendment to the health care bill. The Senate must allow a fair up-or-down vote on the Sessions amendment!

I support the Ensign amendment (No. 3016). Low-income Americans deserve the same freedom and flexibility regarding their health care choices as the Senate bill gives legal immigrants.

I oppose any effort to shut off debate over these issues, and oppose any effort to end debate on the bill, until the amendments get the up-or-down vote they deserve!