No, the claim is incorrect. The President has consistently taken the high road while the Republicans have made attacks based on complete fabrications.

With regard to the specific charge that Wilson made about illegal immigrants getting health care (which is a typically greed themed issue of the Republicans) the proposed law specifically prohibits it. The Republican claim that illegal immigrants would break the law seeking health care does not justify calling the actual wording of the law a lie. Take the example of traffic speed laws. If a politician proposes a that the speed limit be 70, can opponent call him a liar for saying that this will limit people to driving 70 mph or below? No. That's the intent of the law and that's what it should do. If people break the law, the government must try to catch them and enforce it; but, that is not the basic concern of the speed limit law. That's up to the police. We need health insurance laws just like we need traffic laws. Once we get them we need to enforce them. But no one is lying by stating their purpose and wording.

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