{"id":1398,"date":"2009-11-30T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2009-11-30T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T14:35:10","slug":"this_really_isnt_a_surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1398","title":{"rendered":"This Really Isn&#8217;t A Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/nov\/30\/health-bills-fail-to-block-illegals-from-coverage\/\">Washington Times<\/a>&nbsp;is reporting today that there is no provision in the healthcare bill currently being debated to stop illegal aliens (undocumented immigrants) from receiving health insurance.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><em>&#8220;A Congressional Research Service report notes that the House Democrats&#8217; bill does not expressly prohibit illegal immigrants from getting health insurance and, in fact, would mandate that they obtain insurance if they meet the &#8220;substantial presence test.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;That test calculates U.S. residency based on the number of days per year a person is in the country.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">There is a belief in some circles that this is a moot argument because the White House and Democrat leadership in Congress have signaled that they will try to pass a bill next year that would make illegal immigrants legal.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bottom line here is that placing the entire country under health insurance that is somehow government regulated will not save anyone money.&nbsp; It will create an entire new bureaucracy that will grow and continue to need to be paid for by ever-increasing tax revenue from the taxpayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times&nbsp;is reporting today that there is no provision in the healthcare bill currently being debated to stop illegal aliens (undocumented immigrants) from receiving health insurance.&nbsp; The article points out: &#8220;A Congressional Research Service report notes that the House &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=1398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}