“Let illegal immigrants buy into health plans”
ONE KEY AREA in which the House health-care bill is superior to the Senate version involves health care for illegal immigrants. No, that was not a typo: illegal immigrants. Neither the House nor the Senate version would pay for health care for those who are in the country illegally — although it could be argued that, to the extent they land in emergency rooms without health insurance, everyone ends up footing that bill. The question is whether those who are in the country illegally should be permitted to purchase, entirely with their own money, insurance policies available on the newly created exchanges. The House measure would permit such purchases. The Senate would not — and the White House has unfortunately come down on the Senate side. Click here to read this entire article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/25/AR2009122501753_pf.html
