The Fact-Checkers Are Clueless

[Uncle Joe]

78. The fact checkers based their assumptions on a faulty premise

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beginning with a lie at worst or misunderstanding at best told by Blahous, that's not a "conspiracy theory" it's a fact (s).

From your own post #26

“Proponents are perfectly free to argue for those provider cuts and to say that THEY believe M4A will therefore lower national health spending, — and also to cite whatever data they want in support of their arguments, from any study they find credible,” Blahous told us. “What they shouldn’t say is that I also reached that conclusion, because that’s incorrect. That finding should not be attributed to me or to my study."

https://www.factcheck.org/2018/08/the-cost-of-medicare-for-all/

Bernie never said that Blahous reached the same overall conclusion as in the inserting of his own alternate reality scenario not based on Medicare for All as is in Bernie's Bill.

1. Bernie did thank the Koch Brothers for sponsoring a study that shows Medicare for All (that's actually Bernie's plan) not Blahous' would save over 2 trillion dollars over a ten year period. Bernie states that he suspects the Koch Brothers didn't intend to do that but that is what is in the study of the Mercatus Center that is significantly funded by the Koch Brothers.

The author of the Mercatus Report attempted to distance his own findings that clearly shows Medicare for All (Bernie's plan as graded) would indeed save the American People two trillion dollars over a ten year period to "Bernie was being disingenuous by claiming that they reached the same overall conclusion" just to change the frame of the argument and some fact checkers ate it up.

Tapper even went a step further by changing Bernie's statement of saving the American People two trillion dollars to the that of the government to "fact check" Bernie and Alexandria.