Myth: Illegal Immigrants Will Receive Free Health Care

In a Newsweek article this week, “The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate,” the myth that illegal immigrants will receive free health care ranked ranked number three on the list of health care lies gone viral. The article names Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who claimed in a USA Today Op-ed that prohibition of health care coverage for illegal immigrants is “functionally meaningless” without mandatory citizenship checks, for fanning the flames of misinformation.

KJ