This is from The Weekly Standard:
"As the Washington Examiner's Philip Klein recently reported: "Under Obamacare, businesses with over 50 workers that employ American citizens without offering them qualifying health insurance could be subject to fines of up to $3,000 per worker. But because newly legalized immigrants wouldn’t be eligible for subsidies on the Obamacare exchanges until after they become citizens – at least 13 years under the Senate bill – businesses could avoid such fines by hiring the new immigrants instead."
On Tuesday, THE WEEKLY STANDARD asked five U.S. senators about this problem, and none of them knew if it was a problem. "We're trying to solve that right now. I don't know if that's been solved," Senator Max Baucus of Montana (chief author of Obamacare) told THE WEEKLY STANDARD.
"I don't know. I'd have to look at it closely," said Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. "I just haven't read it that closely to know."
Senator Baucus wants to go back and fix it. Senator Casey did not read it that closely.
Are you kidding me gentlemen?
The obvious problem is ObamaCare. You can not fix this disparity between US workers and legalized immigrants without adding the latter to ObamaCare.
Frankly, where were the GOP Senators who voted for this? Why didn't refuse to support it with this clause favoring the newly legalized workers.
This is bad, very bad legislating. There is something very wrong with a law that discriminates against US workers.
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