More importantly, why should I care if a fraction of human beings who receive life-critical health care are designated "illegal" by some entity? Because my money's involved? Oh nooooooooo.

This needs to stop being presented as a two-sided issue. It is only two-sided in the sense that one can be right or wrong. ID has no answer to the basic problem of falsifiability, and so its proponents must resort to faked controversy in order to generate any sort of buzz for their position. There is no controversy over ID within the greater scientific community.