Tag Archives: Charles Boustany

Health Care Summit Squabbles

Posted on February 25, 2010 , Updated on March 2, 2010

We tuned in to watch the president’s health care summit at Blair House today — all six-plus hours of it. And we weren’t surprised to hear some factual missteps in the discussion: Sen. Lamar Alexander said premiums will go up for “millions” under the Senate bill and president’s plan, while President Barack Obama said families …
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TGIF

Posted on September 11, 2009

The last weekend of summer may have knocked a day off of the work week, but the false and misleading claims didn’t take a break. As always, we were on the case. The highlight of the week, of course, was President Obama’s Sept. 9 address on health care to a …
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Boustany’s Response

Posted on September 10, 2009

Barack Obama wasn’t the only person misstating health care facts during prime time on Sept. 9. Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany delivered the Republican response to Obama’s speech. We found a couple of factual flaws. Bureaucracies vs. Bureaucrats Boustany exaggerated when he stated that the Democrats’ bill "created 53 new bureaucracies." …
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