The socialized medicine bill just keeps getting better and better

(That title is sarcasm, in case it didn't come through clearly enough.)

"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."

Try not to keel over in shock.

Heller's amendment was perfectly reasonable, and wouldn't have cost the taxpayers a penny:

"The Heller amendment would have required that individuals applying for the public health care option would be subject to two systems used to verify immigration status already in use by the government: The Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program." (Emphasis mine)

How does it feel to know that should this scheme actually come to pass, you are going to be funding the health care for people who are here illegally, and who will themselves be paying nothing into the program?