Do illegal aliens receive better healthcare than our veterans?

"Illegal aliens trump veterans at U.S. medical offices" Chad Groening http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Defau… An immigration reform activist predicts illegal aliens and Somali refugees will be at the front of the healthcare line if President Obama has his way. As previously reported on OneNewsNow, Democrats defeated a Republican-backed amendment offered by Dean Heller (R-Nevada) that would have prevented illegal immigrants from receiving government-subsidized healthcare under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Obama. Susan Tully, national field director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, says not only are illegal aliens not excluded from the healthcare proposals, but they are already getting benefits before American citizens. She cites the example of a disabled woman in Wisconsin. "She has to go to what they call a Title 19 dentist -- somebody who takes this government [dental] plan," Tully notes. "She cannot get in to see a dentist because illegal aliens and migrant workers fill the waiting rooms because they're all eligible under Title 19 for dentist care." Tully says that clinic is not taking any more patients, adding that even veterans are being pushed aside when it comes to access to benefits. "I've had up in Minnesota a veteran who's having to wait 18 months to get in to see a doctor at a VA hospital, but refugees from Somalia can walk into any clinic at any time and get seen by a doctor immediately," she points out. "We have this crazy, inverted system that people who are less deserving have the first slice at everything." Tully contends the cited examples will only get more numerous if the president's plan for healthcare reform becomes a reality.
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NO! because illegals have been banned from most Government programs since 1996 when Congress passed (and President Clinton signed) the welfare-reform law known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. From then on, only citizens or legal immigrants, such as those with a Green Card, were eligible for federal benefits. Federal law also bars states and local governments from extending those benefits to undocumented immigrants. Read more at Suite101: Illegal Immigrants and Benefits: Undocumented Aliens Do Not Overburden Government Programs http://americanaffairs.suite101.com/arti… EDIT: Your article uses FAIR as a source. That is an Anti-immigration group with Racist ties. WOW! http://www.adl.org/Civil_Rights/anti_imm… mmigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream Groups: The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) – Washington D.C.
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