Healthcare loophole benefits illegals (OneNewsNow.com): "An immigration reform organization says a glaring loophole in the proposed Senate healthcare legislation (H.R. 3590) will potentially allow millions of illegal immigrants to be eligible for insurance, effectively tripling the financial burden on American taxpayers.
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) said Monday that the end is in sight on passage of a sweeping healthcare overhaul. The Democratic leader said the 10-year, nearly one-trillion-dollar Senate bill (would expand coverage to some 30 million uninsured and bar insurance company practices of denying coverage to those with a medical history. The Senate began its eighth day of debate on Monday.
Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform says technically the bill states that it does not cover illegal aliens. But there is a glitch, he says.
Ira Mehlman'The problem is that the verification procedures for proving eligibility are very lax,' says Mehlman. 'And in fact, all somebody has to do is make a claim to citizenship and that pretty much gets them into the system. It doesn't require the more stringent verification procedures that are already in place and being used successfully in many other government programs.'"
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