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The Senate passed the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which helps countless numbers of uninsured children (including my own) access health care. It now moves to the House to be voted on.

One of the more controversial parts of this latest incarnation of the health care bill, is changing the current law that bars legal immigrant children and pregnant women from accessing Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program for five years after they enter the United States.

What is unclear to me is how legislators can talk up the importance of legal immigration and yet have no problem blocking access to basic health care to those who have legal status? Would they rather have people become sick and access medical care through emergency rooms, costing more money?

Via / The Sanctuary