It does increase taxes. It creates an entirely new tax. one that has yet to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office on all private health insurance plans. an assessment. if you will. on private health insurance plans. It increases taxpayer liability for immigrants and illegal aliens. It eliminates the 5year waiting period for people who are in this country legally to participate in Medicaid and CHIP. Wisely. a moratorium for 5 years was placed on SCHIP and Medicaid so that people would not seek to come to this country simply to participate in the welfare state but would come because they wanted to be good citizens and be workers and produce in this country. More pernicious. in my opinion. is allowing illegal aliens to receive Medicaid and SCHIP by weakening citizen verification standards. A net cost of $76 billion over 10 years certainly flies in the face of fiscal responsibility. And. more importantly. it repeals the trigger that was put in the Medicare Modernization Act 3 years ago that would require the President and the Congress to reaffirm if Medicare expenditures went above a certain amendment.
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