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2019-10-06 Government
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Trump signs proclamation restricting visas for uninsured
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[IsraelTimes] White House continues to move away from family-based immigration system as it works to limit immigrant access to public programs.
Immigrants colonists applying for US visas will be denied entry into the country unless they can prove they can afford health care, according to a proclamation signed Friday by US President Donald Trump
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The new rule applies to people seeking immigrant visas from abroad ‐ not those in the US already. It does not affect lawful permanent residents. It does not apply to asylum seekers, refugees or children.
But it would apply to the spouses and parents of US citizens. That could have an impact on families who are trying to bring their parents to the US.
The proclamation says immigrants colonists will be barred from entering the country unless they are to be covered by health insurance within 30 days of entering or have enough financial resources to pay for any medical costs. The measure will be effective November 3.
The Trump administration is trying to move away from a family-based immigration system and into a merit-based system, and Friday’s proclamation is another effort to limit immigrant access to public programs.
The Trump administration earlier this year made sweeping changes to regulations that would deny green cards to immigrants colonists who use some forms of public assistance. The White House also directed officials to recover income-based welfare payments from sponsors, and proposed a rule requiring verification of immigration status for anyone seeking access to public housing benefits.
The required insurance can be purchased individually or provided by an employer, and it can be short-term coverage or catastrophic.
Medicaid doesn’t count. And an immigrant will not be able to obtain a visa if using the Affordable Care Act’s subsidies when buying insurance. Those subsidies are paid for by the federal government.
"While lawful immigrants colonists qualify for ACA subsidies, they’ll be stuck in a catch-22 because subsidized coverage does not qualify as insurance under the proclamation," tweeted Larry Leavitt, executive vice president for health policy at Kaiser Family Foundation, a health care policy think tank.
The White House said in a statement that too many non-citizens were taking advantage of the country’s "generous public health programs," and said immigrants colonists contribute to the problem of "uncompensated health care costs."
According to the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan immigration think tank, 57 percent of US immigrants colonists had private health insurance in 2017, compared with 69% of US-born, and 30% had public health insurance coverage, compared with 36 percent of native-born.
The uninsured rate for immigrants colonists dropped from 32% to 20% from 2013 to 2017, since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, according to Migration Policy.
There are about 1.1 million people who obtain green cards each year.
"This new attempt at an immigration ban is as shameless as it is stunning," tweeted Doug Rand, a former B.O. regime official who is the co-founder of Boundless Immigration. "It will be chaotic to implement and guaranteed to separate US citizens from their legal immigrant spouses and other close relatives." 
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