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Obama lifts ban on freeloaders with HIV/AIDS from entering country

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/10/620000743/1

President Obama said today his administration is lifting an immigration
ban on persons who have HIV/AIDS virus.

"It's a step that will encourage people to get tested and get treatment,
it's a step that will keep families together, and it's a step that will
save lives," Obama said, noting that the process of reversing the rule
began during the George W. Bush presidency.

The United States initiated the ban on visitors with HIV/AIDS 22 years
ago, "a decision rooted in fear rather than fact," Obama said. Now only a
dozen nations continue the practice. "If we want to be the global leader
in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it," the president said.

Obama made the announcement as he signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment
Extension Act of 2009, which provides help to more than half a million
Americans.

White was the 13-year-old from Kokomo, Ind., who in 1984 contracted AIDS
after a blood transfusion, and became internationally known by fighting
for his right to attend school.

White died in 1990, but his legacy lives on. Obama said he only taught
Americans that AIDS cannot be spread through casual contact, but persuaded
people to "take take action to fight it."

White's mother, Jeanne, attended the White House signing ceremony.


More debt for Americans to absorb from freeloaders.

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