Trump Will Deny Immigrant Visas to Those Who Can't Pay for Health Care

[BumRushDaShow]

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 president’s 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

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[hlthe2b]

1. Hardly any of us can! I hate these people...

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]

2. Obsession!

It is a part of the Fascist-like scapegoating du jour. Those immigrants are taking our health care!

Feed the base! Yummy!

[Mr.Bill]

3. This is aimed at people coming here for life-saving medical treatment they

can't get in their countries. Remember the children they wanted to deport several weeks ago?

This is Steven Miller's work.

[Danmel]

4. There are no words to adequately convey how much I hate these bastards

Heartless, disgusting, evil mfers

[Ohiogal]

5. Pure cruelty.

And his loyal haters cheer him on. MFers!

[NickB79]

6. Most immigrants s are young, hard-working individuals

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]

7. Well, Caligula, "Health Insurance That Doesn't Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump"

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]

8. And, as a practical matter, exactly how does one prove that they "will have health insurance"

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]

9. He forgot about Poland

yup

[beachbumbob]

10. Not unusal for countries to place financial requirements on immigrants seeking resident status

I would exempt asylum seekers from this 100%.

[Jose Garcia]

11. Sounds like the Individual Mandate

[EarthFirst]

12. So of course that's his mandate to create an Medicare for All program for all citizens?

You know; the “We gots to take care of our own...” mantra...

Of course it isn’t!

It’s more uncensored xenophobic propaganda brought to you by the Amerikkkan GOP...

[not_the_one]

13. ok, we've separated the ones who can't afford from those who can...

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]

14. "Oh, you're fleeing a country where you fear for your life and safety?"

"Okay great! Now can I just jot down the name of your primary health coverage carrier in that country?"

[Initech]

15. There is no bottom to the depths of their cruelty.

[Bengus81]

16. Talk about a catch-22. PROVE you can pay for health care before you have a job........

Hell,most Americans can't afford HC WITH a job.

[Marthe48]

17. and he and his buddies will run up the cost

I hope that all of the destruction can be undone.

[Jazzgirl]

18. I really hate this fat, orange fucker.

And that includes eastern europeans too. I refuse to capitalize.

[Grins]

19. How do you do that?

“...prove they will have...”?

How do you do that? This is so stew-pud HE had to have written it himself.