The Dark Side has found a new way to save money, or a new way to fund future wars. No amount of money is too great when it comes to health care for potential life, but once you're born, well it's time to start pulling yourself up by your macho bootstraps.
Cause in America, it's every newborn for her/himself.
Today the GOP snatches health care rights from babies born to immigrants, tomorrow they'll snatch health care away from all the babes born outside of their gated communities.
Talkleft has the grim details:
All children born in the U.S. are United States citizens. But the Bush-signed Deficit Reduction Act that went into effect in July prevents Medicaid from covering health care benefits to those born to undocumented residents -- unless the parents file proof of citizenship for the child, which is a catch-22 because the application form takes weeks or months and many of the immigrant parents don't want to alert authorities to their presence here.
Hospitals are just now catching up with the law's demands and doctors are justifiably outraged:
Dr. Jay E. Berkelhamer, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the policy “punishes babies who, according to the Constitution, are citizens because they were born here.” Dr. Martin C. Michaels, a pediatrician in Dalton, Ga., said that continuous coverage in the first year of life was important because “newborns need care right from the start.”
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