House Speaker John Boehner exaggerated when he said the 2.3 percent medical device excise tax in the Affordable Care Act “is costing us tens of thousands of jobs that are being shipped overseas.”
Boehner and the Medical Device Tax
Stories by Eugene Kiely
Director, FactCheck.org
Oct. 4: Affordable Care Act
Sept. 27: Affordable Care Act
FactChecking ‘Pernicious’ Obamacare Claims
There’s plenty of fodder for fact-checkers in Sen. Ted Cruz’s looong attack on Obamacare, and in President Obama’s defense of it.
Warren Buffett on Obamacare
A week ago, billionaire investor Warren Buffett denied he wants to “scrap” Obamacare, calling such reports “totally false.” But that has done little to stop some Republicans from spreading the rumor.
Sept. 20: Star Scientific, Abortion, Medical Excise Tax
Sept. 13: Military, Iraq, Cuccinelli Tax Plan
Inhofe Misquotes Obama’s Chief Military Adviser
Sen. Jim Inhofe badly misquoted Gen. Martin E. Dempsey when he claimed the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff described the current state of the U.S. military as “so degraded and unready, it would be immoral to use force.”
Kerry Spins His Record on Iraq
Secretary of State John Kerry says both he and Chuck Hagel, now the secretary of defense, “opposed the president’s decision to go into Iraq” as senators. But both voted to give President Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq.