Brooks Jackson of FactCheck misleads about illegal aliens and ObamaCare

Posted Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:05 pm

On August 14, Brooks Jackson, Viveca Novak, Lori Robertson and Jess Henig of FactCheck offered the misleading article "Seven Falsehoods About Health Care" (factcheck.org/2009/08/seven-falsehoods-about-health-care), proving once again that Fact Check is not a credible source.

They misleadingly claim that illegal aliens won't be covered under Obama healthcare, pointing to Section 246 of H.R. 3200 which says:

Nothing in this subtitle shall allow Federal payments for affordability credits on behalf of individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.

For why that's highly misleading, see the links in the first item here. It all depends on your temporal reference point: those who are then-current illegal aliens might not be covered (or instead might be covered through loopholes and fraud), but those who are now-current illegal aliens will be covered if Obama gets his way. Got that? See the last link for an explanation.

Looking into FactCheck's other six points is left as an exercise; some or all may be as misleading as the one discussed here.

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Comments

WhereTheresSmoke (not verified)

Tue, 08/25/2009 - 10:00

FWIW I don't believe that we are about to start euthanizing Granny, but this I will say: Obama stood in front of us and stated that health care will not go to illegal aliens, all the while knowing that there was absolutely zero enforcement attached. In fact, the house had removed a provision requiring enforcement and replaced it with the current one by Rep Space that deliberately left it out. He has to know this. IMO, Obama lied to us because he knows that illegal aliens will get health care under this bill, regardless of what it says. So, if he's willing to lie to us about that, why should anybody believe him on any other provision of the bill, including not euthaanizing Granny? He is really screwing himself on this issue. Old folks vote and there are are lot of them out there.

Fred Dawes (not verified)

Wed, 08/26/2009 - 02:58

lies are the watch word of the day by the obama monkeys.

WhereTheresSmoke (not verified)

Wed, 08/26/2009 - 19:47

Fred, old buddy, you ain't wrong......