They Lied: Biden Expands Obamacare to Illegal Aliens
Commentary
April 28, 2023
By Dale Wilcox
More than a decade after the Obama Administration promised that the Affordable Care Act would not cover illegal aliens, Joe Biden has declared that he is expanding the program to do exactly that.
Biden announced earlier this month that he plans to expand Medicare and Obamacare to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, making roughly 700,000 illegal aliens eligible for government-funded healthcare benefits. The move is a major departure from promises made nearly 15 years ago by former President Barack Obama that his signature program would not apply to illegal aliens.
“There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants,” Obama told Congress in 2009. “This too is false. The reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.”
Obama’s comments were immediately met with a thunderous rebuke from South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson, who shouted “you lie!” at the then-president. The breach of decorum led to outrage in the media, and Wilson ultimately apologized. Yet, almost a decade and a half later, Wilson’s outburst has been vindicated.
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