Though it's unlikely this will be the last time we'll write about Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., and his shout of "you lie!" during President Barack Obama's address to Congress last night, we should pass along a link to this post by our NPR Health Blog colleague Scott Hensley just in case the story's 15 minutes of fame is about over:
"Illegal Immigrants Left Out Of Health Overhaul."
Scott writes that:
We talked with some analysts at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan outfit that's been on top of the issue for a while, to sort through the fact and fiction. The bottom line, they told us, is the legislation proposed to date makes clear that undocumented residents of the U.S. wouldn't be eligible for federally subsidized benefits under an overhaul.
That's the same conclusion reached by the AP's Calvin Woodward — though he found some other things about the president's address that raise questions of accuracy:




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