Associated Press Keeps Pushing Inflated Health Care Price Tag Based On Unnamed Source
Wow, it’s the zombie stat that won’t die: It looks like the Associated Press is really committed to its claim — based on an unnamed source — that the House Dems’ health care bill will cost $1.5 trillion.
Yesterday I noted that House Dems were furious with the AP for stating that price tag as outright fact, even though its source was a single anonymous aide and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office put the cost far lower. Health care reform foes have been reciting the number as if it’s scripture.
Today the AP is at it again:
Votes were planned Thursday in the Education and Labor and Ways and Means committees on a $1.5 trillion plan that majority House Democrats presented this week. The legislation seeks to provide coverage….
Let’s go through this really slowly. It’s possible the plan could end up costing $1.5 trillion. I’m not saying this won’t happen. But right now, this figure is in dispute. On one side is the anonymous aide who gave the AP the number. On the other side are House Dem aides who say on the record that it would cost far less, and the CBO, which estimates $1 trillion.
The point is that even if the $1.5 trillion price tag does turn out to be right, it is not now a matter of outright fact, as the AP keeps asserting. It’s really that simple. More from Brian Beutler and Steve Benen.
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That gosh darn “liberal” media, at it again!
Newt had brought up the medicaid part that wasn’t scored which is supposed to bring the costs down even further.
Wonder if this is Ben Nelson’s dirty work.
Fournier is not an honest person if he allows for such a stuck in the mud response to the criticism leveled at the first citation! What a putz! -Kevo
Just in: An unnamed source put G. W. Bush present in the White House in May 2006 when numerous farm animals were raped and then ritualistically slaughtered. Secret clean-up crews from the CIA, trained for this very task, were reported to have been called in to remove the mess. Mrs. Bush was heard to exclaim, “Dang it George, you’ve ruined the curtains!”.
Isn’t right winger Rupert Murdoch still on the Associated Press’s Board?
It was astonishing when the Associated Press appointed an outrageous propagandist like Rupert Murdoch to their board, but in light of the AP’s subsequent reporting, the move has made sense.
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