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FactCheck Destroys POTUS Wannabe Pataki's Smear Ads

by: Dean Barker

Thu Oct 07, 2010 at 19:11:08 PM EDT


Remember POTUS wannabe George Pataki's sloppy ad against Annie Kuster (and also Carol Shea-Porter)?  Fact Check took a look at them today and demolished its bogus claims:
The ad makes several false and unsubstantiated claims:

   * It claims that the law creates "longer waits in doctors' offices" and that "your right to keep your own doctor may be taken away." The group says those claims are about a Medicare payment program that the law calls for establishing. But it points to an opinion piece that doesn't make those claims at all. The author tells us it's "bogus" to cite his article as support for the ad.

   * The ad falsely calls the health care law "government-run health care." The truth is that - while the legislation will expand regulation of the insurance industry - it builds on our current private health care system and expands business for private insurers.

   * The ad claims "costs will go up," when, in fact, premium costs for most Americans are predicted to stay the same or decrease slightly from where they normally would be. And for many others, federal subsidies will offset premium increases.

But read the whole thing - it's a takedown of epic proportions.

Of course, the sad thing is that most people will see these ads, yet never know they are full of lies. Let's make sure we remind Pataki of this when he comes a-knockin' on our primary doors.

Dean Barker :: FactCheck Destroys POTUS Wannabe Pataki's Smear Ads
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