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They all raised their hands, but PolitiFact gives ‘mostly false’ rating

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  1. lpast

    lpast Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They all raised their hands, but PolitiFact gives ‘mostly false’ rating to claim that 2020 Democrats want to ‘give free health care to illegals’

    This is just how much and how badly they lie to the american people. Everyday Warren and Sanders say medicare for all includes illegals. Liberal fact checking is Liberal Lie Making


    PolitiFact awarded a “mostly false” rating this week to Republican Party of Florida Chairman Joe Gruters after he said the 2020 Democratic primary candidates want to “give free health care to illegals.” This comes after the Pulitzer Award-winning fact-checker gave President Trump the exact same rating for making the exact same claim.

    The group's "mostly false" designation hinges entirely on Trump and Gruters's use of the word "free." Just ignore that part where the 2020 Democratic candidate did indeed endorse extending healthcare coverage to people in the United States illegally, at little or no charge to themselves.

    https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...ats-want-to-give-free-health-care-to-illegals
     
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    Health care is already free to "illegals." It's called the Emergency Room and it's very expensive.
     
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    Probably safe to assume you are aware that most illegal aliens never go near a Hospital Emergency room on the chance they may become involved with the local authorities or ICE.
     
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    You know hospitals don’t contact ICE correct? They have no way of knowing if the immigrant is legal or not.
     
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    ROFL at Politifact using semantics to dance around the left's promises of freebies. They're right, free isn't free, that's what the rest of us have been saying all along. What is free to them is paid for by us (taxpayers), but I bet you'll never see one of the Democrat presidential candidates admit that in one of their speeches. Politifact is letting the left's secret out of the bag ;) There is no such thing as "free". Everything one person gets for "free" is actually paid for by someone else.
     
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    Republican "Christians" would love nothing more than to allow ER's to let brown people bleed out on the floor.
     
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    Jestsayin Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They do if they feel the police need to be involved. Makes no difference if the person is legal or illegal. They let the police figure it out.
     
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    Yeah if you have been shot or stabbed. But going in to ER for a really bad cold. Illegal or not, cops never find out.
     
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    Maybe we should make it illegal to treat them.
     
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    Like hell they don't..
     
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    The main point of this story. Politifact is not a reliable source for getting facts checked.
     
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    And then announce to the world how the US is a Christian nation.
     
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    Nope i have it on bad authority we are a secular nation..

    How about people who are passionate about helping these people start their own hospitals to treat these people for free so they can be healthy for their return home.
    People are at their best when they do what they are passionate about. Government doing it or paying for it? Bad idea.

    The solution to every problem is in the private sector from passionate people.
     
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    The hospital is reimbursed by the govt...It is a law passed back in the 1980's..
     
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    That's the problem.
     
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    Well the govt. gives out dough to many industries to keep them afloat. I call it corporate welfare others claim it ain't...But the farmers got 16 billion to play with..Sadly the corporate farms are getting the lionshare of the welfare er subsidy..
     
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    Big Government = Big Corruption
     
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    We should get rid of those subsidies too. Starting with ethanol subsidies.
     
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    Yes, and the big corruption runs the business and govt. of the US..We the people have lost control..
     
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    Moonglow Well-Known Member

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    Yes that is from the US Energy Policy Act of 2005. So it is done by the Dems and Repubs. there really isn't much difference with the parties..
     
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    That is why i am a conservative, i want to eliminate government control.. as far as i am concerned government grid lock is absolutely wonderful.. because there isn't anything more government needs to be doing.. in fact Congress should only meet to get rid of laws instead of making more.
     
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    I wonder how some of the posters think that a religious entity which owns a hospital can deny care to someone.
     
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    They need to end the wars including the drug war and let us live in peace for the first time since before Nam...
     
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    Then I take it that the Democrats who voted were not voting for free health care for illegals?
     
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    The hospitals around here are run by nuns so no one get turned away or turned in..
     
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