When Rep. Joe Wilson (R.-S.C.) blurted out "You lie!" in the middle of Obama's health-care speech last night, he was wrong as well as rude.

Wilson was responding to Obama's assertion that the proposed health reforms would not benefit illegal aliens.

The House health-care legislation specifically states that no subsidies may go to illegal immigrants. It also requires everyone to obtain coverage. Therefore, illegal immigrants would have to buy insurance and pay full freight for it.  That doesn't sound like much of a free lunch to me.

My latest column explains why the health reforms wouldn't  encourage illegal immigration -- and how they might actually help curb it.

And it answers the $64,000 question: How come does Canada have universal coverage and almost no illegal immigrants?

The column can be found here.

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