Your Papers Please…To Buy Health Insurance
Since Arizona passed it’s new law dealing with illegal immigration the Left has been enjoying themselves by invoking the old NAzi cliché ‘your papers pleaze’ every chance they can get. This libel is nothing, of course, but a tactic taken from the Leftist Playbook, Disinformation Section.
Professor William Jacobson has found a rather interesting provision in the Obamacare bill:
Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded.
Under the final Senate health care bill signed into law (unlike the earlier House version), illegal aliens are screened out. Only persons who can prove they are “a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States” get to participate.
In other words, when you try to buy a policy through an exchange, or seek a subsidy, or receive any of the other supposed benefits, you will be told “show me your papers.”
Just like in Arizona now. If you are contacted lawfully by the police. And if the police officer has a reasonable suspicion that you are here illegally. And if you cannot produce any of the specified common forms of identification. And in that case, the officer has to try to confirm your status with the federal immigration authorities.
The burden of producing identification under the Arizona law is no more intrusive than the documentation you need to fly; or ride an Amtrak train; or check into a hotel; or rent a car; or cash a check.
It certainly is less intrusive than the health care mandate, which forces people to spend money or be penalized, and requires that employers and taxpayers report to the government about insurance status. I find it quite interesting that the same people who insist that the federal government can control virtually all aspects of our health care find it so horrid when a state government seeks to protect its citizens by verifying immigration status.
Ah, Irony! Thy sting is but a pleasure when fools it punctures.
Thanks, Prof.
[Special thanks to Dave C., proprietor of At The Point Of A Gun, for being my post title spell checker ('Buy' instead of 'By') and for being a Son Of A Gun.]
“the Left has been enjoying themselves by invoking the old NAzi cliché ‘your papers pleaze’ every chance they can get. ”
They would enjoy that bit since they are so adept at it. WOLVERINES!!
Another irony: when they quote the Nazi’s [National Socialist Worker's Party], they are quoting their comrades, their ancestors in thought.
Something that crossed my mind. Since it is “wrong” to ask for papers, if I show up on union job site to work, isn’t it wrong for the union thugs to ask me for a union card?
It;s wrong, but when have unions ever cared about right and wrong?
So if they don’t have their papers, they’ll be treated and then handed over to ICE, right?
notholdingmybreath.jpg here
Don’t be blue [or is it 'turn blue'?].