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I remember reading a short editorial in Newsweek a couple of weeks ago about illegal aliens and health care insurance. The article basically stated that illegal SHOULD be allowed to purchase health care insurance, either commercially sold policies or public option policies.

The reasoning is that illegal aliens are generally low utilizers of health care anyway. They are intimidated from going to official-looking edifices and talking to white-robed people. They often avoid care just because of the language barrier. Illegal aliens are generally younger and healthier so that they can work long hours under poor conditions. Also, most illegal aliens stay 1-2 years and leave before having to use health care anyway.

All this means that we get an infusion of cash from purchases of policies that will never be taken advantage of by the purchasers (illegal aliens). The cash is then available for use by those of us who live here and will actually get to use health care.

This was an unusual twist on the issue of illegal aliens, but I could not find any fault in the logic behind this position.

So here we have yet another reason to provide health care insurance for illegal aliens.

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