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- Factcheck.org Finds Little Support For Sen. Rand Paul's Claim That Medicaid Expansion Will 'bankrupt' Kentucky Hospitals
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, Nov. 3 that the federal health-reform law may "bankrupt" rural Kentucky hospitals "by overwhelming them with Medicaid patients." However, health-care leaders in the state "say its hospitals stand...
- Will Birth-control Mandate Cost More Or Less? Yet To Be Seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the findings of FactCheck.org,...
- Pat Boone Commercial About Medicare Has Many Inaccuracies
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at the University of Pennsylvania....
- Hike In Health Insurance Premiums Due To Rising Health Costs, Not Reform Law, Factcheck.org Concludes
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans shot up by 9 percent from 2010 to 2011, but the bulk of the hike is due to the increase in health care costs, not the federal health-care reform law, non-partisan FactCheck.org has found. ...
- Factcheck.org: Health Reform Does Not 'kill Jobs'; Gop Disagrees
In their report released last week, Republicans in the U.S. House said the new health reform law will be "job-killing," but FactCheck.org has concluded that is not necessarily the case. The Republican report, released Jan. 6 and entitled "Obamacare: A...
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Watch out for specious claims about health-reform law in highly politicized debate; Sen. Paul among those found off base
The biggest story in the state and nation is about to be Tuesday's opening of online health-insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, under the federal health reform law. "Obamacare" has been politicized from the start, and the current debate has featured several specious claims that journalists should be on the lookout for as they report, edit, present and choose commentary (including letters to the editor and person-on-the-street interviews) on the subject.
"There?s plenty of fodder for fact-checkers in Sen. Ted Cruz?s looong attack on Obamacare, and in President Obama?s defense of it," says FactCheck.org, the oldest of the nonpartisan political fact-checking services. It says the Texas Republican falsely claimed that spouses of United Parcel Service employees will be ?left without health insurance? and forced into ?an exchange with no employer subsidy.? UPS is dropping coverage only for who can get insurance with their own employer.
Conversely, "Obama greatly exaggerated when he credited the health care law for bending the cost curve on health care spending," FactCheck says. "Experts say the down economy is the overwhelming reason that national health care spending has been growing at historically slow rates in recent years."
FactCheck also took on Cruz ally Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for saying ?everybody is going to pay more? for health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "The fact is, some will pay more and some will pay less," the service says. "Some currently uninsured Americans will pay little or nothing because of the law?s expansion of Medicaid."
As usual, FactCheck has a detailed accounting for its analyses, with plenty of references, here.
"There?s plenty of fodder for fact-checkers in Sen. Ted Cruz?s looong attack on Obamacare, and in President Obama?s defense of it," says FactCheck.org, the oldest of the nonpartisan political fact-checking services. It says the Texas Republican falsely claimed that spouses of United Parcel Service employees will be ?left without health insurance? and forced into ?an exchange with no employer subsidy.? UPS is dropping coverage only for who can get insurance with their own employer.
Conversely, "Obama greatly exaggerated when he credited the health care law for bending the cost curve on health care spending," FactCheck says. "Experts say the down economy is the overwhelming reason that national health care spending has been growing at historically slow rates in recent years."
FactCheck also took on Cruz ally Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for saying ?everybody is going to pay more? for health insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. "The fact is, some will pay more and some will pay less," the service says. "Some currently uninsured Americans will pay little or nothing because of the law?s expansion of Medicaid."
As usual, FactCheck has a detailed accounting for its analyses, with plenty of references, here.
- Factcheck.org Finds Little Support For Sen. Rand Paul's Claim That Medicaid Expansion Will 'bankrupt' Kentucky Hospitals
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said on ABC's "This Week" Sunday, Nov. 3 that the federal health-reform law may "bankrupt" rural Kentucky hospitals "by overwhelming them with Medicaid patients." However, health-care leaders in the state "say its hospitals stand...
- Will Birth-control Mandate Cost More Or Less? Yet To Be Seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the findings of FactCheck.org,...
- Pat Boone Commercial About Medicare Has Many Inaccuracies
A television commerical misleads seniors into believing the federal health-care reform law will ration and deny care and contains other inaccuracies, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, non-profit service based at the University of Pennsylvania....
- Hike In Health Insurance Premiums Due To Rising Health Costs, Not Reform Law, Factcheck.org Concludes
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans shot up by 9 percent from 2010 to 2011, but the bulk of the hike is due to the increase in health care costs, not the federal health-care reform law, non-partisan FactCheck.org has found. ...
- Factcheck.org: Health Reform Does Not 'kill Jobs'; Gop Disagrees
In their report released last week, Republicans in the U.S. House said the new health reform law will be "job-killing," but FactCheck.org has concluded that is not necessarily the case. The Republican report, released Jan. 6 and entitled "Obamacare: A...