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October 8, 2012 03:00 PM
The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
shouldn’t standReporters did good fact checking, but also left falsehoods on the table
There was no shortage of media fact checking after last week’s presidential debate, much of it focused on healthcare, much of it good. Still, reporters left a lot of healthcare “facts” on the table, unexamined, too. Let’s take a look. The New York Times devoted seven graphs to accurately explaining why Obamacare is not, despite Mitt Romney’s assertions, a...
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