A number of major media outlets, including a column in The New York Times, a post on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and on Newsweek are reporting that Rush Limbaugh said he would move to Costa Rica if the health care bill passed.

“[F]eel free to remind Rush Limbaugh that he promised to move to Costa Rica if health care reform gets implemented,” wrote Times columnist Gale Collins.

“You might remember Rush Limbaugh’s highly publicized promise that if health-care reform became law, he’d move out of the country.” penned Newsweek’s Liz White. “…Well, Rush, pack your bags.”

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Julia Baird has an article in Newsweek dated March 11th called “Voice of the Middle Class: Why Wall Street Hates Elizabeth Warren.” It is the puffiest of puff pieces. If you took out the friendly adjectives– “Warren has been transformed from mild-mannered Harvard professor to the sharp-shooting, feisty head of the Congressional Oversight Committee”; “Warren is concise, logical, and angry”—there would be nothing left.

Baird reports that Warren, “in a landmark study, found that more than half of all people who declare bankruptcy cite medical reasons.” That this finding has been fiercely contested—that the balance of evidence suggests that her … Continue Reading

On December 29th, Mary Carmichael reported for News week on What Health-Care Reform Will Mean for You. She writes:

Two changes will affect people with current private insurance in 2010. One is that they won’t have to worry about maxing out their lifetime medical benefits, because as of six months after enactment, insurance companies won’t be allowed to impose those maximums on anyone. … A second is that people who are frustrated with their plans will have someone to gripe to other than their congressmen: the Senate bill calls for the immediate creation of new state offices that will handle

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Andrew Romano, in Newsweek, argues that health-care reform ought to enable illegal immigrants to get coverage. The merits of his policy view aside, his article makes a number of errors.

Romano writes:

The line [Rep. Joe Wilson] objected to—”The reforms I’m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally”—is, in fact, not a “lie.” The current House bill makes it very clear that “individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States” will not be allowed to receive subsidies. To wrangle assistance, illegal aliens would have to commit identity fraud, something that rarely happens in our current public-health-care

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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