Did Obama Lie?

One of the things that has been getting me really upset is Obama’s claim that no where in his healthcare bill does it provide health care for illegal immigrants.  Well tonight during Obama’s

 “Look at me I’m Obama, remember?” speech South Carolina Republican Rep. Joe Wilson shouted, "You lie!" In case you missed it, here’s the clip:

Now if you go over to CNN or MSNBC right now, you’ll find discussions on how outrageous, rude, and inappropriate it was.  To tell you the truth I’m not really worrying about that.  I’m much more interested in what the hec caused Rep. Wilson to shout what he did.  I’m glad someone decided to speak out against the smoke and mirrors magic trick.  Allow me to show you how deceitful this claim is. First let’s hear Obama’s own words:

Now to be fully honest, in the bill, it says you have to be “legally present in one of the states” which is the exact phrase from the bill (whatever that means).  Note that it does not state that you have to be legally present in the United States. “Legally present in a state” is not a recognized legal term. It has no significance because they refused to install any mechanism to enforce that someone is here legally.  In other words no one is going to check and make someone prove their legal status.

Dean Heller, a congressman from Nevada introduced a bill to require the federal government to use a database to ensure that illegal immigrants were not provided state healthcare.  The bill was defeated.  There were a total of three attempts to amend the bill by republicans to ensure that there was some sort of system in place for verification and all were defeated by the democrats.  So an illegal immigrant can sign up for health care and receive tax payer dollars for it because no one is going to cheek to see if he’s here legal.  As a matter of fact, The Hispanic Caucus went to Nancy Pelosi and told her the only way they would support the bill is if a verification provision was left untouched.  They would let the democrats say what they wanted to say about it not giving insurance to illegal immigrants and bla bla bla, but they agreed that no provision would be added to the bill to verify someone was here legally.  And it just keeps on going… It also states in the bill if one person in a family is judged to be eligible, then all other people in the family are deemed to be legal.  So the family of an anchor baby can all get access to public health care paid by the hard working taxpayer.  Obama wants to have his cake and eat it to.  Don’t believe this clown.