True, false and the in-between of health reform: Illegal immigrants

A large part of the noise provided by opponents of health care reform has been in reference to claims that illegal immigrants would be getting open access to health care.

One of the best ways to prevent this, is to have provided for a robust form of photo I.D. that anybody applying for health care benefits must show in order to prove citizenship. You’d think that the Republicans would have been all in favor of this, but instead opposed it at every turn. They believe that a national identity card will be the next step to ‘big brother’.

May I also assume that these same folks have burned their drivers licenses, passports, military ID,  Medicare and social security cards? Uh, probably not. Logic rarely enters into these sorts of discussions.

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