Obama says healthcare plan won't cover illegal aliens (word games; possible exception for children)

Katie Couric of CBS News asked Barack Obama whether his healthcare plan would include illegal aliens to which he replied "no" (link). He did allow for an exception:

"First of all, I'd like to create a situation where we're dealing with illegal immigration, so that we don't have illegal immigrants... And we've got legal residents or citizens who are eligible for the plan. And I want a comprehensive immigration plan that creates a pathway to achieve that... The one exception that I think has to be discussed is how are we treating children... Partly because if you've got children who may be here illegally but are still in playgrounds or at schools, and potentially are passing on illnesses and communicable diseases, that aren't getting vaccinated, that I think is a situation where you may have to make an exception."

Basically, Obama wants his plan to include all illegal aliens, he just wants to legalize the millions of current illegal aliens first. Presto chango, his plan won't cover illegal aliens, just those who were illegal aliens the day before. He's playing word games, and Couric is helping him. For more on that deception, see the post about David Cutler, noting that even after being amnestied, millions of former illegal aliens wouldn't be "Americans" until they'd spend years going through the citizenship process.

The follow-up question Courice should have asked is whether he intends to reduce the number of illegal aliens here currently through enforcement, something he clearly has no intention of doing. And, of course, the amnesty he supports would encourage even more illegal immigration, eventually swamping the system.

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"Presto chango, his plan won't cover illegal aliens, just those who were illegal aliens the day before." And the 100+ million more who will be given extended family visas, or just sneak across the border waiting for the next amnesty. Or the 6.7 billion people on the planet who will be getting the idea that the border is a joke and its OK for them to do the same. I am sure Janet Cloward-Piven has a plan for keeping the border secure and ensuring they all have the legal right to live and work here. Not.

"First of all, I'd like to create a situation where we're dealing with illegal immigration, so that we don't have illegal immigrants... And we've got legal residents or citizens who are eligible for the plan." And so my friends, amnesty is on the horizon whether you like it or not... cuz I need these voters as more people become aware that I am a fascist dictator

Two paramount issues are very much prevalent on the minds of US taxpayers? Both command your attention, as they are umbilical connected? Health care and illegal immigration! In1986 hospital and ambulance services must convey care to anyone needing emergency treatment regardless of citizenship, legal status or ability to pay. Trouble is most of these are unfunded federal mandates? Because taxpayers always carry the financial weight, the hospitals, as the government overlook the costs involved or they short-change local government? Over thirty years or even longer taxpayers have unwittingly supported millions of illegal aliens, who choose to come here, knowing full well they were breaching the law. The cost is taboo when relating to the free health care, schooling to K-12, and undisclosed low income housing and other financial rewards for breaking our laws, not to forget an overcrowded penal system. Those who appose any form of a health care agenda in most cases will be defeated financially--big time. That includes lawmakers who have a monetary interest in undermining a universal medical system, as they are apt stockholders in hospitals, clinics, drug companies and even the prosperous health insurance industry. Is it no wonder their using dirty tactics, to bombard the airwaves with outrageous half-truths, about the European and Canadian health care system, that has worked with complete harmony for decades? Illegal immigration has the same ramifications, that if Washington passes a path to citizenship, against the opinion of a larger portion of the US population, it will mean higher taxes, and rising irreversible population growth. It will pilot to a chain migration of family members that will rupture welfare benefits to all poor Americans. Everybody must have noticed the dire-straits financially that California--a Sanctuary State--has been impacted by mass illegal immigration? Then once the word reaches outside the borders of the US, even more millions will stream across our sovereign lands, looking for work and handouts. As with Health care the open border extremist and special interest lobby, already have their orders from the cheap labor industries, to quash any new laws that have a hard-hitting effect on immigration. Democrats and certain members of the GOP have a considerable interest, in abating any laws that, would fasten the border or would inflict penalties on businesses. E-Verify are the most secure extraction mechanism to remove illegal labor from job locations. Even with unemployment rising above 10.0 percent, legislators like Sen. Reid, Pelosi, and Napolitano are part of the conspiracy to unwind any laws, such as E-Verify, local police law 287(g), Save Act, Real ID and place them with puny substitutes. Until they have proved that these new enforcement laws actually work such as Schumer's new alternative to E-Verify, that all U.S. workers to verify their identity using fingerprints or digital photos Homeland Security should

Homeland Security should keep upgrading E-Verify and not--REPLACE IT? WE MUST CONSTANTLY RELAY OUR ANGER AND DISAPPOINTMENT TO OUR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES AT 202-224-3121---BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. WE MUST SAY NO AMNESTY! SEAL OUR BORDERS AND NO MORE FREEBIES TO ILLEGAL ALIENS. THEY ARE THE CRIMINALS, NOT AMERICANS WHO SACRIFICE TAXES? GOOGLE--NUMBERSUSA for details our government and the media have a nefarious talent, for keeping facts under wraps? Copy & Paste and Distribute freely.

'You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.' --Milton Friedman Obama wants to create the mother of all magnets for illegal immigration but, heh heh, if we just change their label from illegal to legal...

Pretty soon we'll be as crime ridden as Britain and France......burning cars,knifing people in the street..... bankrupting the country. Either these people are dimwits or have an aagenda.....Globalism

Mary is right, and the political race agenda started long a go inside the office of the KGB Inside moscow political system and after the reds stop running the place the agenda keeps running us into hell.

i guess if we are to become the north american union obama does not care how many illegals we are to lure with this health plan. i pay alot in taxes and if he is going to cover illegal aliens be ready because they are coming in, whether the door is open or not. you are going to see disney visas go up because the sick kids will come in to be on that health plan. you will see more mothers die in the desert trying to come in with all their illegal chlldren.