Four More Pinocchios

[Edgetho]

This has become so commonplace, it borders on the absurd.

Can this guy tell the truth? About anything?

WaPo Fact Checker Gives Obama “4 Pinocchios” For Claiming 7 Million Got “Access To Health Care For First Time” Because of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion…

Not-so-bold prediction: Obama and the Dems will continue to repeat this lie.

Via Washington Post:

“We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion.”

– President Obama, remarks during dinner with the Democratic Governors Association, Feb. 20, 2014

The Fact Checker has written several times about the fuzziness of the Medicaid numbers issued by the Obama administration. But it is like playing whack-a-mole. Every time we rap someone for getting it wrong, the same problem pops up someplace else.

The Fact Checker has written several times about the fuzziness of the Medicaid numbers issued by the Obama administration. But it is like playing whack-a-mole. Every time we rap someone for getting it wrong, the same problem pops up someplace else.

But here is the ultimate authority — the president of the United States — making the problematic claim that everyone counted under the administration’s Medicaid math is getting “access to health care for the first time.” Time for a refresher course!

The Facts

Medicaid is the health-care program for the poor, generally those at or below the federal poverty level. The Affordable Care Act expanded it to individuals with incomes of up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (about $15,850), though the Supreme Court gave states the option of whether to participate.
So far, 25 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid, while four more are considering it. Under the ACA, the government will initially pay 100 percent of the cost of expansion, though it eventually drops to 90 percent. (Under the current formula, the cost is split at least 50-50 between the states and the federal government.) [...]

The Pinocchio Test

What does this mean in terms of evaluating the president’s statement? He seems to be falling into the same trap as other Democrats, and some reporters, by assuming that everyone in the Medicaid list is getting health insurance for the first time because of the Affordable Care Act. But that number is nowhere close to 7 million. It could be as low as 1.1 million (Avalere) or as high as 2.6 million (Gaba.) If one wanted to be generous, one could include people coming out of the woodwork, even though they would have been covered under the old law, but no one is really sure what that figure is.

In any case, no matter how you slice it, it does not add up to 7 million. It is dismaying that given all of the attention to this issue, the president apparently does not realize that the administration’s data are woefully inadequate for boastful assertions of this type.

Read it all…

 

[eflatminor]

Not-so-bold prediction: Obama and the Dems will continue to repeat this lie.

Count on it.

 

[kwc57]

Color me shocked!

 

[Moonglow]

Are there any politicians that tell the truth all the time? Or non-politicians?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It's only a lie if you're a racist

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Are there any politicians that tell the truth all the time? Or non-politicians?

Obama has set a new standard for US Presidents

 

[Moonglow]

Well, are there any people on the planet that tell the truth all the time??

 

[TakeAStepBack]

It's truly shocking to hear that the top of the food chain rent seeker is lying about his accomplishments. No really, it's F&*king shocking.

And, a democrat no less. I mean, they lie, and they are shameless hypocrites.

 

[Moonglow]

repubs lie also, so do libertarians, in fact, all people tell lies...The internet is a liars den.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

repubs lie also, so do libertarians, in fact, all people tell lies...The internet is a liars den.

Thanks, fella. That's really great observation there. The point here though, has gone over your head so fast, and so high, you apparently had no idea there was one.

Are you a democrat voter?

 

[Edgetho]

Not only this, but last year, before the year was even over, the WaPo awarded the lying fucker the "Liar Of The Year" award.

The biggest Pinocchios of 2013

Not only has nobody ever gotten Four Pinocchios twice, the lying cocksucker-in-chief got 4 Pinocchios THREE times in one year alone....!!

Poor Richard's News - Pinocchio! Obama tops Washington Post?s list as biggest liar of the year.

And he's already got one for this year!

dimocraps themselves don't care.

They're just as scummy as their Dear Leader

 

[CrusaderFrank]

"Avalere, a health consulting firm, in a recent analysis raised serious questions about the 6.3 million Medicaid figure, estimating that only 1.1 million to 1.8 million of the claimed enrollees could be attributed to the Affordable Care Act. That estimate generated headlines, including a full report in The Washington Post that said it suggested “many of the people who have joined the program since the initiative’s rollout in October would have done so absent the law.”

 

[Edgetho]

repubs lie also, so do libertarians, in fact, all people tell lies...The internet is a liars den.

Thanks, fella. That's really great observation there. The point here though, has gone over your head so fast, and so high, you apparently had no idea there was one.

Are you a democrat voter?

Would anyone with an above-room-temperature IQ make such an idiotic statment?

Of course it's a dimocrap voter.

Just another hater

 

[R.D.]

repubs lie also, so do libertarians, in fact, all people tell lies...The internet is a liars den.

You keep repeating that. So what?

Everyone tells the truth sometimes too. For example “…I inhaled frequently. That was the point."