Reply #7: " Republicans Require Health Insurance for Immigrants Only"

[BruceB]

Hi Folks

I read the bill. It isn't for immigrants, it is for the Guest Workers it would establish. They can't stay in the US for longer than 6 years total, and the rest of the bill would make it far-far more difficult to live and work up here illegaly. Almost impossible. And they couldn't bring their families, no green card application allowed, no roots layed down, that seems to be the gist of it. Kyl-Cornyn looks like a "we mean what we say" bill.

You have to get real about this and not kid yourself. So long as they can bring in tons of cheap labor from elsewhere, whether illegally or through Guest Workers, the less possibility there is going to be for Mandated Health Care for everyone else. Importing workers brings the opposite of conditions that Unions used to bring to the job market. We will not get it both ways, you have to get smart and not expect conflicting interests to benefit one another. We could make the point that they are getting something we aren't privileged to get as Americans, but since when do they care? You have to shrink the number of new workers, make these benefits something they need to offer anyway to get sufficient people in there applying. Mandating something that most of them have to do anyway is obviously a much easier goal.