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From National Review Online - he website PolitiFact is going to be truth-squadding the Republican convention speakers this week, delivering verdicts on which claims are “mostly true” and which deserve a “pants on fire” rating. Our advice: Pay no attention to those ratings. PolitiFact can’t be trusted to get the story right. Its recent rulings on Medicare have demonstrated the point thrice over. PolitiFact said that Romney’s comment that Obama had “robbed” Medicare of $716 billion to pay for Obamacare was “mostly false.” Among its reasons: “The money was not robbed in any literal sense of the word.” So if Romney led anyone to believe that Obama had held Medicare at gunpoint and ordered it to hand over its wallet, they can now rest easy, because PolitiFact is on the case. PolitiFact’s other arguments are that Medicare spending will continue to rise and that Obama’s spending reductions are “mainly aimed at insurers and hospitals, not beneficiaries.” Leave aside the economic naïveté of that argument, and focus instead on the irrelevance. Romney said that Obama had taken money that was going to be spent on Medicare and instead spend it on Obamacare, and suggested that this was a bad thing. In other words: an absolutely true claim, and an opinion based on it. If PolitiFact disagrees with that opinion, let it publish its views under a different name. Read more
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Obama's plan is to expedite the insolvency of Medicare. He intends to achieve this by deliberately underfunding Medicare. This will force existing seniors into Obamacare. The Medicare program would altogether disappear. The rules in Obamacare require a panel of bureaucrats to review each recommended treatment and decide on a case-by-case basis which medical procedures will be approved for funding. The menu of treatments that would first require bureaucratic approval are certain to include; hip, knee,and shoulder replacements. You can't siphon $716 billion (nearly a trillion dollars) dollars away from Medicare to Obamacare, which DOES implement the claims process described above, and then lie to the American people and say you're NOT trying to change Medicare or make it go away.
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