Don Roach

It’s called Universal Healthcare!!

Stay with me now. Representative Joe Wilson is taking heat – deservedly so – for saying “You lie!” to the president who was giving a speech on healthcare. Wilson was basically saying the President Obama is trying to include illegal immigrants as part of his public option plan.

Maybe he isn’t, but these guys are:

Fearful that they’re losing ground on immigration and health care, a group of House Democrats is pushing back and arguing that any health care bill should extend to all legal immigrants and allow illegal immigrants some access.

The Democrats, trying to stiffen their party’s spines on the contentious issue, say it’s unfair to bar illegal immigrants from paying their own way in a government-sponsored exchange. Legal immigrants, they say, regardless of how long they’ve been in the United States, should be able to get government-subsidized health care if they meet the other eligibility requirements.

Let me note for the record that I have very little problem with legal immigrants in a public option system, if one were available. Now that that is out of the way take a look at the bold underlined section. Illegal immigrants – commenter Joe Bernstein would say they are not “immigrants” – are committing a criminal act just by being here. Yes, they’re human beings but no we cannot just sing “Kumbaya” and establish no control over the boarders. Some liberals, especially the ones supporting the extension of “some” (read: all) health care benefits to illegal immigrants, don’t have the spine to say no to illegal immigration but they can certainly stand up and take money out your pocket. No problem there.

But I digress.

Another tenet that has been in the mix of this public option debate are fines for anyone who does not get health insurance.

Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday as President Barack Obama met Democratic leaders to search for ways to salvage his health care overhaul.

We solve our illegal immigration problem in a round about way. Because most companies do not wish to break the law and hire an illegal immigrant, it’s highly unlikely many illegal immigrants would be able to pay for their own health care. Thus, they would be fined and that may spark inquiries into their immigration status.

Am I being facetious? Yes, so this doesn’t really solve the illegal immigration problem. But it does demonstrate some members of Congress’ willingness to burden the average American while placing no boundaries upon people here illegally. And that’s plain silly.

So we thought the difficult part was over once we got out of the hospital. As I drove my wife back home after learning more about car seat placement than I ever wanted to know, I thought to myself, “A year from now he’ll probably be walking. Two years from now he’ll probably be speaking to us.” I was definitely excited to have a small person in the world who looked like I “spit him out” according to friends and family.

The first few weeks were difficult as Don had some trouble laching & my wife struggled to be a homemaker while working from home. My job (remember the promotion) didn’t make things much easier by putting a lot of pressure on me to perform. Not that that’s bad, but when you’re also learning how to be a parent it’s draining.

To give you an example of how crazy things were we became what I like to label clean-o-maniacs. Everything had to be sterile from hands, clothing, bottles, etc.  One day my wife fell asleep making the bottles exhausted with everything she was doing. Little Don must have noticed the smoke because he woke my wife up with a little crying – and he rarely cried. Little did we know how foreboding his lack of crying was.

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