If and as the Affordable Care Act becomes the law of the land, they will want the benefit of that law's protections and subsidies as well. One reason there has been so much resistance in the United States to universal health coverage is the vague awareness on the part of citizen voters that state-subsidized coverage will disproportionately benefit migrants, many of them originally illegal. About 27% of the uninsured are foreign born. If you are looking to build a wider consensus in favor of universal coverage—and I think we should be so looking—then anything that invites further large-scale migration by people who will pay less in taxes than they will require in subsidies is destabilizing and unwise.
Which means that today's policy decision settles nothing. It only opens the way to further contention over further rounds of amnesty-in-all-but-name.
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