Politico’s Marin Cogan and James Hohmann try and “truth-squad” Rep. Paul Ryan’s claims at the February 25th Blair House health summit writing:

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) claimed that under the Democrats’ plan, millions of seniors will lose their Medicare Advantage plans.

Not quite.

According to health policy experts, it’s fair to say that if the Democrats have their way, the benefits provided by Medicare Advantage will be reduced — which means that a number of seniors might choose not to enroll in the program in the future. That doesn’t mean people are going to “lose” their plans, exactly — just that fewer

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Newsweek’s Sharon Begley has an article in the September 7th edition of Newsweek titled: “The Five Biggest Lies in the Health Care Debate.” Two of the “lies” Begley identifies are issues we have already dealt with (Obamacare Will Enable Government to Ration Health Care and Obamacare Will Pay For Illegal Immigrant Health Care).A third “lie” that  Begley claims opponents of Obamacare are spreading is that “health-care reform will be financed through $500 billion in Medicare cuts.” Begley’s evidence that this claim is false: “This refers to proposed decreases in Medicare increases.” Does Begley employ this same logic … Continue Reading