GOP Senate candidate Brunner pushes questionable claims about health care law
The Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling to uphold the health care law presents Democrats with a second bite of the apple, a chance to redefine their message on some of what the law would actually do, not what critics claim.
But it will be tough because Republicans thoroughly out-maneuvered them during the original debate and its aftermath. The canard about “death panels” seems to have died. But several of the more popular charges still stand, even though various nonpartisan fact-checking groups and government data have revealed them to exaggerations or total falsehoods.
Indeed, within hours of the ruling, opponents of the law were tossing them around again.
John Brunner, a candidate for the GOP Senate primary in Missouri, aired a new radio today critical of the ruling, claiming that the health care law “cuts Medicare for seniors.”
Alleging that the law slashes $500 billion from the government insurance program for those over age 65 has been one the Republicans’ most persistent attacks. But it has been debunked numerous times by both nonpartisan watchdogs, like Politifact.com and the Fact Checker in The Washington Post, as well as the Congressional Budget Office.
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