Gayle in MD
11-13-2011, 06:11 PM
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The candidates made a number of false or misleading claims that they’ve said before, which we covered in an earlier posting soon after the debate concluded. For example, Romney continued to claim that the health care law he signed affected only 8 percent of the population (not true) and that he didn’t raise taxes to pay for it (he left that for his successor). Bachmann claimed that a Medicare advisory board will make health care decisions for over 300 million Americans (it’s specifically prohibited from rationing) and repeated her claim that the U.S. is borrowing 40 cents of every dollar spent (the correct figure is 37 cents). Huntsman committed a real howler by claiming that the Internal Revenue Service is hiring 19,500 new employees to administer the “mandate” in the new health care law. The IRS has actually requested only 1,269 new employees, and much of their work will involve handing out tax credits.
We have continued to research other statements made during the debate. Here are some new ones we find worthy of note.
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Our research has turned up some more dubious and misleading claims from the economic debate among Republican candidates in Hanover, N.H.
Cain claims his 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul the tax code is “simple, transparent, efficient, fair, and neutral.” But his campaign has provided few details of how the plan would work, and a consultant hired by the campaign to analyze the plan could not provide evidence of how the plan would impact different income groups.
Gingrich left out important facts on a government-backed panel’s recommendation that healthy men not get routine prostate screening tests. And he said that Sarah Palin’s bogus “death panel” claim had merit.
Bachmann made the confusing and unsubstantiated claim that Obama secretly aims “for Medicare to collapse, and instead everyone will be pushed into Obamacare.”
Perry claimed that a state program for small businesses offering health insurance has “driven down the cost of insurance by 30 percent.” But the cost is lower because Texas taxpayers subsidize the plans.
Gingrich claimed that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had “spent hundreds of billions of dollars” on secret bailouts. But the Fed made loans, and actually reported billions in profits from interest income.
Perry misquoted Romney’s economic adviser. Glenn Hubbard did not say that “Romneycare was Obamacare.” Hubbard said the two laws were similar and that the “main components” were the same.
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<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Analysis:</span>
http://factcheck.org/2011/10/tales-from-new-hampshire/
We have continued to research other statements made during the debate. Here are some new ones we find worthy of note.
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Our research has turned up some more dubious and misleading claims from the economic debate among Republican candidates in Hanover, N.H.
Cain claims his 9-9-9 proposal to overhaul the tax code is “simple, transparent, efficient, fair, and neutral.” But his campaign has provided few details of how the plan would work, and a consultant hired by the campaign to analyze the plan could not provide evidence of how the plan would impact different income groups.
Gingrich left out important facts on a government-backed panel’s recommendation that healthy men not get routine prostate screening tests. And he said that Sarah Palin’s bogus “death panel” claim had merit.
Bachmann made the confusing and unsubstantiated claim that Obama secretly aims “for Medicare to collapse, and instead everyone will be pushed into Obamacare.”
Perry claimed that a state program for small businesses offering health insurance has “driven down the cost of insurance by 30 percent.” But the cost is lower because Texas taxpayers subsidize the plans.
Gingrich claimed that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had “spent hundreds of billions of dollars” on secret bailouts. But the Fed made loans, and actually reported billions in profits from interest income.
Perry misquoted Romney’s economic adviser. Glenn Hubbard did not say that “Romneycare was Obamacare.” Hubbard said the two laws were similar and that the “main components” were the same.
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<span style='font-size: 11pt'>Analysis:</span>
http://factcheck.org/2011/10/tales-from-new-hampshire/