CNSNews.com - Dodd Says Illegal Aliens Won’t be Eligible for Health Subsidies Even if Legalized and Put on ‘Pathway to Citizenship’; Other Senators Disagree

CNSNews.com - Dodd Says Illegal Aliens Won’t be Eligible for Health Subsidies Even if Legalized and Put on ‘Pathway to Citizenship’; Other Senators Disagree: "(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) told CNSNews.com that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for federal health insurance subsidies even if Congress enacts comprehensive immigration reform that puts them on a “pathway to citizenship.”

CNSNews.com asked Dodd and other senators whether people who are currently illegal aliens in the United States would become eligible for health insurance subsidies under the proposed health-care reform plan if they were made into legal residents and put on a pathway to citizenship by an immigration reform bill.

Dodd, who as acting chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee oversaw the drafting of one version of the legislation, said illegal aliens would not be eligible even if they were legalized and put on a pathway to citizenship.

Dodd said that while he had not read the other Senate proposal, being crafted by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), his proposal would not have such a result.

“Not as I understand it, under the bill,” Dodd said."