Senator Baucus' proposed bill, if enacted, would induce employers to fire low-income workers, especially single women with children. And those same employers would have all sorts of motivation to hire illegals.
Why? Because the rules affect employers in ways that differ from what you've been given to understand.
Let's say that you are Nancy, a 28 year old single parent. You work for a company with 50 employees. Your entire family income is only two or three times the poverty line. Your boss, under Baucus, would now have to pay for your health insurance and for your kid's insurance.
Now let's say Tabitha comes along and applies for a job at your firm. She's married to a guy who makes $70,000 a year and she does not have kids. Since her family income is sufficiently above the poverty line, the boss does not have to pay for her health costs. Believe it or not, that's the case.
There's another job applicant: 18 year-old Barbi, who has a rich dad. No need to subsidize Barbi.
Naturally, your boss now wants to fire you and hire Tabitha or Barbi to take your place.
Here's the kicker: Adelina, an undocumented worker born in Guatemala City, also wants work. Your boss has to pay not one dime of her health care. Thus, she is now -- in certain ways -- more desirable on the job market than Nancy is.
Making sure that the health bill does not cover illegals makes illegals more likely to get American jobs.
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One question, though, isn't hiring illegal aliens (persons who have no right to work in this country) against the law? Hasn't there always been some incentive on the part of employers to favor illegal alien workers except for the legal/ethical concerns?
Is your answer that illegal aliens can be covered if they pay the same into the system that a citizen does?
Just tryin' to understand. Thanks.
i'llbedamned
Most illegals are young and healthy. If they paid into the system they would be subsidizing older, sicker people.
They can get free (for them, the taxpayers pay) health care at emergency rooms anyway.
Their kids are often US citizens, and therefore eligible for Medicaid, etc.
The knee-jerk anti-immigrant stuff is silly. Preventing them from getting driver's licenses doesn't stop them from driving, but it means they can't get insurance.
I just read that 41% of illegal adults and 47% of their kids have health insurance(Pew Hispanic Center).Those who don't are thought to work in occupations where insurance is not offered by employers. I guess they are paying for health insurance the same way they are paying into Social Security but actually getting a benefit from the former.
Employers aren't usually busted for illegals unless they have a large percentage of such workers and get on the Fed's radar through complaints, etc. Feds don't have near enough manpower to track hiring nationwide.
Originally, Obama did want illegals to be able to use the exchange to purchase their choice of insurance but they would be ineligible for subsidies. Makes sense to me-reduces ER use that everyone pays for.But as myiq says, the knee-jerkers have little use for commonsense.
I hope the Baucus FAIL is put out of it's misery soon.FOX actually got it right for once and put R-MT under his name!
Joan
Not surprising. Republicans like Baucus (yeah yeah I know he's technically a D) absolutely adore more hiring of illegal aliens, although they pretend otherwise. Cheap labor is their second most favorite thing in the world, right after "no taxes for rich people".
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