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La Raza President Wants Health Care Reform for 'Everyone,' Including Illegal Aliens
(CNSNews.com) -- National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguia said that health care reform should include "everyone," and this means illegal immigrants as well because with more people paying into the system it might lower the costs of health care.Speaking to reporters Thursday at a press conference in support of President Barack Obama's efforts to pass a government-led overhaul of the nation's health care system, Murguia said that while the issue of illegal immigrants was politically difficult, there were "strong" arguments for covering the illegals. "From our perspective there's a strong case to be made in this country for us to reform health care [and] it ought to include everyone," said Murguia. "There's a lot of different reasons why we should try to reform this system once and for all so that everyone is covered. The more people who are covered, the more cost-effective and the more and better health outcomes we're going to have." "We know that politically it's very difficult right now to take on the issue of undocumenteds [but] there's no reason why we shouldn't be trying to cover as many people as possible, certainly when it comes to undocumented children," she said. "Our goal should be to have health care reform for everyone." Posted by: Fred 2009-10-03 |
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