Get ready for another round of misleading claims about the government interfering with women’s ability to get mammograms.
Mammography and the ACA, Redux
Person: Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Reid Wrong on AFP Criticism
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrongly blamed the conservative group Americans for Prosperity for promoting a “false” story of a woman whose insurance premiums went up $700 per month. AFP didn’t feature that woman’s story in any of its ads.
Is Obamacare Causing Health Care Layoffs?
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers blamed the Affordable Care Act for a recent loss of health care jobs, but she based her comment on a reported December downtick that was preliminary and minuscule at that.
‘Record Revenues’
Republicans claim the federal government will “collect more revenue in 2013 than ever before.” But that’s only true in raw dollars, not as a percentage of gross domestic product, which accounts for growth in population, inflation and earnings.