Do you actually believe that illegal aliens are going to be turned away at Hospitals with Obamacare?

Part of the debate conceded that it does not improve the problem with illegal aliens. They would be exempt from the individual mandate under 26 USC 5000A (d)(3). (http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h3590/text?ve... (Top free sources of codified statutes, like Cornell and Findlaw are generally not up to date enough to include this provision, but opencongress.org has it.):

"INDIVIDUALS NOT LAWFULLY PRESENT. Such term [applicable individuals] shall not include an individual for any month if for the month the individual is not a citizen or national of the United States or an alien lawfully present in the United States."

The reason for that provision is to make sure the new law doesn't change the status of illegal aliens, who get free emergency care already and will continue to do so because the Hippocratic oath prevents doctors from denying health care to anyone in emergency need.

I don't think you'll find too many people who are generally opposed to repealing that provision, though the reason it was a part of the law is because it isn't as simple as just removing that language. The 5th amendment requires that the law does not force a person to incriminate themselves. Thus, the law cannot require that a person inform the government that they are not lawfully present. If you remove that provision from the code, you've got to make some other provision. The IRS is required to have similar considerations. For example, ever since Al Capone, the mafia always files their taxes. Because their income is illegal, they file all of it under miscellaneous. Similarly, many States tax illegal drugs. Generally, the purpose is to bring revenue into the State when drugs are seized, but the law would be unconstitutional if they required possessors of drugs to report themselves. Hence, they anonymously sell tax stamps to anyone who wants them. While almost nobody buys them, there are a few drug dealers I've read about in the newspaper who buy the stamps and include them with the drugs so that if their customers are caught, they don't have any tax penalties. They use the stamp as sort of a brand name.

You won't find a lot of opposition to including illegal aliens in the individual mandate, but setting up a system that doesn't violate the 5th amendment creates some thorny political issues that nobody wanted to add to the original debate. If you want to have a debate about that now, that's great. I'm all for it.

I think they will not be turned away but they should be. I think if you don't have insurance (to include medicaid or medicare) you should be turned away. I work in first response, and I had a guy yesterday complaining cause a hospital wouldn't let him stay the night cause he had shin splints and he had no insurance. The doctors told him to elevate his feet, and he got mad cause they wouldn't let him stay. He asked what did he need to complain about so he could stay a day or two in the hospital. I get tired of dealing with idiots and lazy morons like this that want something but don't want to contribute to the system. WAY TO GO OBAMA THANKS FOR HELPING THE IDIOTS IN THIS COUNTRY. INSTEAD OF MANDATORY INSURANCE WHY DON'T YOU MAKE THEM GET MANDATORY JOBS.

I wish everybody without insurance would be turned away. People would then be tripping over each other to get Obamacare.

But why buy the cow when the milk is free? Republicans know they can sponge off of the taxpayer by using our emergency rooms for free health care.

I'm not an illegal, don't care what happens to them. Hospitals should turn them away if they can't pay. We don't give them free cars and gasoline, no reason health care should be any different.

First, you have a trick question. Undocumented workers will not be turned away because of a law signed by President Reagan, not because of the Affordable Care Act.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/0...

Second, undocumented workers do not receive any of the benefits in the Affordable Care Act. Read the law and see for yourself.

ER's turn no one away as it is, and hospitals don't expect the bills to be paid anyways which are passed down to the taxpayers.

"Undocument Immigrants" who actually have jobs as opposed to just being day laborers would pay some nominal amount through their employer. However, if the employer does not provide insurance to employees, the amount they would have to pay to the system is laughable.

Aliens should go through some sort of quarantine before they are allowed contact with Earthlings. You never know what kinds of diseases might come through the stargate.

They never been turned away.

SOLUTION: KICK OUT ALL ALIENS AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE TO RESIDENTS ONLY.