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Dallas News   9/16/2009
Ruben Navarett
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-navarrette_17edi.State.Edition1.30d53c9.html

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President Barack Obama has already made three big errors where the issues of health care and illegal immigration intersect and we're still in the early innings.

Error No. 1: Obama and his advisers should have listened to immigration reform activists who suggested the White House should tackle immigration before health care. Otherwise the activists warned concerns that illegal immigrants would get benefits could trip up the health care effort. That's just what has happened.

Error No. 2: Obama's next mistake was putting into his recent congressional address the now-famous line insisting that it simply isn't true that illegal immigrants would receive benefits under the health care reform measures currently being debated. If Obama hadn't gone down that road and made such a claim Rep. Joe Wilson R-S.C. wouldn't have felt compelled to respond with a forceful but tacky: """"You lie!""""

This isn't to excuse Wilson who was out of line and who apologized. It's only to say that Obama made a conscious decision to include that language when he could have left it out. Had he done that Wilson wouldn't have had his 15 minutes.

So who is right? Here's the most honest answer: It's hard to say. Democrats are correct that most of the reform bills in Congress say that illegal immigrants are not eligible for benefits. But Republicans are also correct that there is no provision for verifying citizenship since Democrats killed those amendments. So we couldn't be sure who is getting what.

Error No. 3: Due to Wilson's outburst the White House has been bullied into lurching to the right just to quell the criticism over whether illegal immigrants will get health coverage.

Trying to defuse the controversy the White House overcorrected. White House spokesman Reid Cherlin recently said that the president's plan would bar illegal immigrants from purchasing health coverage through an insurance exchange and require verification of immigration status. Illegal immigrants could still purchase health insurance through the private market. Yet the White House acknowledges that private plans will probably shrink if a public option is created.

So illegal immigrants could end up with fewer health care options than they have now. And we call this reform?

The most humanitarian thing the administration is prepared to do is to continue requiring hospitals to provide emergency care to illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense which is the law anyway and reimburse hospitals for that cost.

That's great. Emergency care is among the most expensive and it would be so much cheaper to focus on prevention over treatment and pay for doctor visits as opposed to hospital stays. Obama knows this but he's too terrified of the public backlash to inject common sense into this discussion.

?Excerpted from a column by Ruben Navarrette of the San Diego Union-Tribune; his e-mail address is ruben.navarrette@uniontrib.com.
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