Illegal aliens will be treated at times even though rationing is likely for dying Americans

Health care services may be scarce, and therefore expensive, but they're not so scarce or expensive that the United States should stop treating illegal aliens.

So says President Barack Obama.

This raises the possibility, indeed the probability, that at some point in the future an American citizen who is a combat veteran, retired after a 40-year career as a police officer, will be told that he can not receive life-prolonging treatment while a lawbreaker who is not a citizen can show up at a hospital emergency room and get treatment.

One of the inescapable implications of the various Democrat health care plans rattling around Washington is that health care will be rationed, at least for those who are in the final stage of life.

Obama describes treatment of illegal aliens, in certain circumstances, as "a basic standard of decency." One of those situations, he said, would be a child who shows up at an emergency room and is found to be suffering from tuberculosis or is in another "death situation."

It's preferable to treat them, Obama said, than to send them home and risk having them play with other children at school.

Whoring for hispanic votes - it's on top of the agendas of both political parties, and will be until American voters decide to take their country back.