[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 13]
[House]
[Pages 18184-18185]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE AND ILLEGALS

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Madam Speaker, the nationalized health care bill 
will continue to allow illegals to get free medical services. 
Foreigners who are not authorized to be in the United

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States flood over our wide-open borders by the millions to get free 
universal health care. That bankrupts Federal and State health care 
safety nets set up for Americans.
  It's very simple to understand to most people: our citizens are 
forced to pay medical bills for citizens of countries all around the 
world. These people in our country illegally use our hospital emergency 
rooms like it's their primary care, and it doesn't cost them anything. 
And what our government doesn't pay, the hospitals are forced to pay. 
That drives up the cost of medical care and the cost of insurance for 
citizens and legal immigrants. Now those problems will just get worse 
under the new proposal.
  The nationalized health care bill will force our citizens who cannot 
even pay for their own health care to pay billions of dollars a year 
for health care for millions of illegals. That's just wrong. Citizens 
and legal immigrants shouldn't be forced to pay for the health care of 
people illegally in the United States.
  And that's just the way it is.

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