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Trump health office lies to millions with fake reports and data
https://shareblue.com/trump-health-and-human-services-aspe-health-care-lies-fake-reports-data/An office that is key to evaluating and implementing U.S. health care policy has been repeatedly pushing out bad information to aid Trump's attack on Obamacare.
Trump administration officials running a key office within the health department have been caught manipulating studies and reports in an effort to undermine Obamacare, support the administration’s anti-refugee stance, and push an anti-abortion agenda.
According to a new Politico report, staff say “the political pressures to tailor facts to fit Trump’s message have been unprecedented.”
The office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (ASPE) within the Health and Human Services (HHS) department traditionally works to track the effects of health care programs and to help inform the public on health care issues.
But under the Trump administration, the office has been repeatedly caught publishing false data.
In one instance, Trump’s ASPE generated a report alleging that a majority of states saw premiums and costs double under Obamacare in 2017. Politifact rated the claim “false” after a Republican senator cited it in a Facebook post. The fact-checkers took note of serious methodological errors in the analysis and called it “flawed.”
In another study, Trump’s ASPE claimed millions of people would get health coverage if Obamacare was repealed. As Politico noted, the finding was “at odds with nearly every independent analysis.”
Trump administration officials running a key office within the health department have been caught manipulating studies and reports in an effort to undermine Obamacare, support the administration’s anti-refugee stance, and push an anti-abortion agenda.
According to a new Politico report, staff say “the political pressures to tailor facts to fit Trump’s message have been unprecedented.”
The office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (ASPE) within the Health and Human Services (HHS) department traditionally works to track the effects of health care programs and to help inform the public on health care issues.
But under the Trump administration, the office has been repeatedly caught publishing false data.
In one instance, Trump’s ASPE generated a report alleging that a majority of states saw premiums and costs double under Obamacare in 2017. Politifact rated the claim “false” after a Republican senator cited it in a Facebook post. The fact-checkers took note of serious methodological errors in the analysis and called it “flawed.”
In another study, Trump’s ASPE claimed millions of people would get health coverage if Obamacare was repealed. As Politico noted, the finding was “at odds with nearly every independent analysis.”
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