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DEL.ICIO.USSays Deal: No paperwork, no coverage — no problem
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The New York Times reports today that a federal law intended to keep illegal immigrants off Medicaid has “shut out tens of thousands of United States citizens” who can’t come up with birth certificates and other paperwork.
The NYT identified the principle authors of the 2006 legislation as two Republican congressmen from Georgia: Nathan Deal and the late Charlie Norwood.
A spokesman for Deal said he’d fight any attempt to ease the restriction. In fact, Deal will try to add it to the federal-state insurance program for the children of the working poor — known in Georgia as PeachCare.
Not that it’s likely to happen in a Congress now controlled by the other party.
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By JustMe
March 12, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
Any legal US citizen should be able to come up with some valid paperwork to get social security.
Does it have to be a birth certificate? Couldn’t some other official document or combination of documents suffice?