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The White House vs PolitiFact on Illegal Immigrant Health Care

The St. Petersburg Times PolitiFact posted a Truth-O-Meter feature on September 9th claiming “Joe Wilson of South Carolina said Obama lied, but he didn’t.” Justifying her conclusion, Angie Drobnic Holan wrote:

We read all 1,000-plus pages of the health care bill and were struck by the fact that it is largely silent on health care for illegal immigrants. … Most illegal immigrants are also now excluded from Medicaid, the government-run health care for the poor. We didn’t see anything that would change that.

What Holan completely fails to report, however, is that there is a specific program used by Medicaid … Continue Reading