3 months after Joe Wilson, Obama still lies ~ By Tom Tancredo

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

By Tom Tancredo Posted: December 12, 2009 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Three months ago, my former colleague Joe Wilson famously yelled, "You lie!" when Barack Obama falsely claimed, "There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally." Liberals went nuts, but Rep. Joe Wilson was right. Obama conceded as much when two days later the White House issued guidelines to close some of the loopholes that allowed illegal aliens to acquire health insurance in the House bill. But despite those guidelines, illegal aliens are still eligible for Obamacare under both the House and Senate bills. An analysis by the non-partisan Center for Immigration Studies exposes how easily illegal aliens will be able to exploit our health-care system under Obamacare. The health-care bill contains four provisions that increase government spending. There are two massive government expansions: the much discussed "public option" and a sharp increase of Medicaid subsidies. In addition, it includes two ostensibly market incentives: the semi-private "Health Insurance Exchange" and "Affordability Credits" that are basically tax credits for low income households. However, the Exchange will be heavily subsidized by the government, and families eligible for "Affordability Credits" are not paying taxes, so a "tax credit" is just another form of welfare. What this means is that any part of the health-care bill that illegal aliens are eligible for will involve subsidies by the American taxpayers. Illegal aliens are eligible for all of them! The CIS study notes that the House bill contains absolutely no provisions excluding illegal aliens from the public option or Health Insurance Exchange. According to The Hill newspaper, this was a concession to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who threatened to block the bill if illegal aliens were banned. In both the House and Senate bills, the new applicants have the "presumption of eligibility," which means "no questions asked" when illegal aliens apply. READ FULL STORY >