Health Care Reform Proposals Leave Legal Immigrants Uninsured
Opponents of health care reform have raised the specter of government-subsidized illegal immigrants flooding our medical system with their costly illnesses. In
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“Leaving large numbers of legal immigrants out of health care reform would defeat the core goal of the legislation, which is to extend coverage to the nation’s 46 million uninsured,” said MPI Senior Vice President Michael Fix in a statement released with the report today.
The report also criticizes the proposals for stringent eligibility screening, which is often costly and badly designed, and keeps eligible U.S. citizens from getting access to medical coverage if they can’t prove their citizenship. The Brennan Center for Justice found that in 2006, 21 million U.S. citizens lacked valid identity documentsnecessary to prove their citizenship.
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