Democrats Defeat Amendment That Would Exclude Illegal Immigrants From Government Health Care

Government health care by itself would be an expensive boondoggle that would seek to control health care costs by dragging us all down to a lowest common denominator of care. But a government health care system where taxpayers are not only on the hook for crappy government health care for themselves but for millions of illegal immigrants too?
I guess the Democrats think that we taxpayers are golden geese that will just keep laying the golden eggs for them to spend on nonsense like this.

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.
The House Ways and Means Committee nixed the Heller amendment by a 26-to-15 vote along straight party lines, and followed this action by passing the 1,018-page bill early Friday morning by a 23-to-18 margin, with three Democrats voting against the plan.
The Democratic plan will embrace Obama’s vision of bringing free government medical care to more than 45 million uninsured people in America – a significant portion of whom are illegal aliens.

I wonder if health care subsidies for 12 million illegal immigrants was calculated into the CBO’s estimate of this plan causing $239 billion in new deficits.