Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can't Pay for Health Care
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON The Trump administration will deny visas to immigrants who cannot prove they will have health insurance or the ability to pay for medical costs once they become permanent residents of the United States, the White House announced Friday in the latest move by President Trump to undermine legal immigration.
Mr. Trump issued a proclamation, effective Nov. 3, ordering consular officers to bar immigrants seeking to live in the United States unless they will be covered by approved health insurance or can prove that they have the financial resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs.
In the proclamation, Mr. Trump justified the move by saying that legal immigrants are far more likely than United States citizens to lack health insurance, making them a burden on hospitals and taxpayers in the United States. The United States government is making the problem worse by admitting thousands of aliens who have not demonstrated any ability to pay for their health care costs, he wrote, adding, immigrants who enter this country should not further saddle our health care system, and subsequently American taxpayers, with higher costs.
The surprise order is the latest step in a long effort by Stephen Miller, the presidents top immigration adviser, and others in the administration, to limit what they consider the financial burdens of allowing immigrants into the United States.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/04/us/immigrant-visas-health-care.html
hlthe2b
(102,236 posts)I try to dance around saying I hate them, but no... I hate them. They are destroying all that we have ever stood for.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It is a part of the Fascist-like scapegoating du jour. Those immigrants are taking our health care!
Feed the base! Yummy!
Mr.Bill
(24,284 posts)can't get in their countries. Remember the children they wanted to deport several weeks ago?
This is Steven Miller's work.
Danmel
(4,913 posts)Heartless, disgusting, evil mfers
Ohiogal
(31,989 posts)And his loyal haters cheer him on. MFers!
NickB79
(19,236 posts)IE the demographic LEAST likely to need hugely expensive health care.
If you want to complain about leeches draining the US of insurance money due to crappy health, all those obese, retired, gun-toting Trump voters come readily to mind.
progree
(10,904 posts)Bloomberg, 9/17/19, https://www.democraticunderground.com/114222021
How about all these people you entice or push onto junk insurance plans, and working to destroy comprehensive health insurance like the ACA? Why don't you worry about these people not being able to pay their medical costs? And if it's such a big moral deal to you that people be able to afford their medical costs, why did you get rid of the tax penalty for not having health insurance?
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)sometime in the future? Or, for that matter, what level of assets are needed to prove they have sufficient "resources to pay for reasonably foreseeable medical costs?" How far into the future do we need to "foresee" needing medical attention? Etc, etc.
Yeah, I foresee upcoming litigation over this vileness.
jpak
(41,757 posts)yup
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)I would exempt asylum seekers from this 100%.
Jose Garcia
(2,595 posts)EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)You know; the We gots to take care of our own... mantra...
Of course it isnt!
Its more uncensored xenophobic propaganda brought to you by the Amerikkkan GOP...
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Now he just needs to require that everyone who CAN afford it, MUST stay at one of his properties.
If he could get away with it, he would...
forgotmylogin
(7,528 posts)"Okay great! Now can I just jot down the name of your primary health coverage carrier in that country?"
Initech
(100,068 posts)Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Hell,most Americans can't afford HC WITH a job.
Marthe48
(16,949 posts)I hope that all of the destruction can be undone.
Jazzgirl
(3,744 posts)And that includes eastern europeans too. I refuse to capitalize.
Grins
(7,217 posts)How do you do that? This is so stew-pud HE had to have written it himself.