Yeah, that’s going to be a hard sell…
I also think now is a bad time.
The political vs economic issues here mirror, in a way, those in the medicaid-expansion decisions in red states. California is asking the allow people to pay money that will eventually go to health-care providers, thus reducing the amount of healthcare that isn’t paid for (and, incidentally, improving health outcomes for those people and everyone else). Republicans are going to pitch a fit because they don’t like the people who are offering to pay.
Not nice to scare the GOP. Bring it on. Make it an issue with the millions whose lives have improved with Obamacare.
This makes so much sense.
IF they are undocumented then they can’t get work benefits even when they are working and mostly undocumented immigrants are working, more than one job quite often. This really benefits the rest of society even more - it benefits their employers, it benefits everyone around them because they are not going to be as likely to come to work sick and pass it around, and it saves everyone money. I would think that over time it could be shown to save a whole lot of money.
This is why the government of the state Texas is so fucking stupid. Construction is booming all over Texas and every house I see going up is being built by Hispanic immigrants, working for American contractors. It would benefit those contractors to be able to have a healthy, dependable work force, so health care just makes incredibly good sense. So of course Texas will never do it.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (R-CA)… she’s a Democrat. I am not entirely sure how this site messes up party affiliation so often.
As for opening up Obamacare to the undocumented… it is the right idea financially and morally. You really would have to be a horrible human being willing to spend extra money to let people suffer to not support it.
I dunno…the basket of deplorables will have a shit fit, further showing how deplorable they are. Of course, they will also lie and say that “your tax dollars” are going to support “illegals” when it’s exactly the opposite - fewer tax dollars would go towards their healthcare if this law is enacted.
A few years ago Rick Perry wanted to negotiate a joint health insurance plan with Mexico for nationals who were in the state. I’m sure those home builders were quite supportive.