{"id":367041,"date":"2010-02-26T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:32:57","slug":"fact-checking-the-health-care-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367041","title":{"rendered":"Fact-checking the health care summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly (er, not really) <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.asc.upenn.edu\/2010\/02\/health-care-summit-squabbles\/\" >neither\u00a0side had a total grasp on the truth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth hitting the link for the entire\u00a0piece, but here&#8217;s the FactCheck.org summary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Sen. Lamar Alexander said premiums will go up for \u201cmillions\u201d under the Senate bill and president\u2019s plan, while President Barack Obama said families buying the same coverage they have now would pay much less. Both were misleading. The Congressional Budget Office said premiums for those in the group market wouldn\u2019t change significantly, while the average premium for those who buy their own coverage would go up.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander also said \u201c50 percent of doctors won\u2019t see new [Medicaid] patients.\u201d But a 2008 survey says only 28 percent refuse to take any new Medicaid patients.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Harry Reid cited a poll that said 58 percent would be \u201cangry or disappointed\u201d if health care overhaul doesn\u2019t pass. True, but respondents in the poll were also split 43-43 on whether they supported the legislation that is currently being proposed.<\/li>\n<li>Obama repeated an inflated claim we\u2019ve covered before. He said insured families pay about $1,000 a year in their premiums to cover costs for the uninsured. That\u2019s a disputed figure from an advocacy group. Other researchers put the figure at about $200.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Tom Coburn said \u201cthe government is responsible for 60 percent\u201d of U.S. health spending. But that dubious figure includes lost tax revenue due to charitable contributions to hospitals and other questionable items. The real figure is about 47 percent.<\/li>\n<li>Reid said \u201csince 1981 reconciliation has been used 21 times. Most of it has been used by Republicans.\u201d That\u2019s true, but scholars say using it to pass health care legislation would be the most ambitious use to date of this filibuster-avoiding maneuver.<\/li>\n<li>Rep. Charles Boustany said the main GOP-backed bill would reduce premium costs by \u201cup to about 10 percent.\u201d According to CBO, that\u2019s true for the small group market, which accounts for only 15 percent of premiums. But premiums in the large group market would stay the same or go down by as much as 3 percent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/6872\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com&#038;blog=2464417&#038;post=6872&#038;subd=davidkirkpatrick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shockingly (er, not really) neither\u00a0side had a total grasp on the truth. It&#8217;s worth hitting the link for the entire\u00a0piece, but here&#8217;s the FactCheck.org summary: Sen. Lamar Alexander said premiums will go up for \u201cmillions\u201d under the Senate bill and president\u2019s plan, while President Barack Obama said families buying the same coverage they have now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}