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Decoding the White House spin on Obamacare ‘failures’

The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website July 5, 2017:

As the Senate gears up to vote on the GOP bill to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, the White House is publishing statistics to criticize the current health law. The White House published a “Repeal and Replace Obamacare” website, rife with numbers and graphics, and is posting various statistics through its Twitter account.

We always say numbers are like catnip for fact-checking — and it’s especially so when it comes to health care, a regular topic of interest at Fact Checker. So we looked into the recent spin on health-care figures from the White House. As readers will see, in most instances, the White House used accurate figures but characterized them in misleading ways or out of context. Continue reading “Decoding the White House spin on Obamacare ‘failures’”

Trump, in Zigzag, Calls House Republicans’ Health Bill ‘Mean’

The following article by Thomas Kaplan, Jennifer Steinhauer and Robert Pear was posted on the New York Times website June 13, 2017:

President Trump spoke in the Cabinet Room of the White House before having lunch with Republican senators on Tuesday. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Tuesday bluntly derided a House attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act as “mean,” and in doing so, injected himself in a brewing Senate battle that his fellow Republicans had prayed he would avoid.

At a White House lunch with more than a dozen Republican senators, Mr. Trump alerted his guests that a bill passed by the House this spring — one he lauded last month in the Rose Garden as a “great plan” that was “very, very incredibly well-crafted” — was now “mean.”

He also informed the lawmakers, who represented politically diverse views from across the Republican spectrum, that he expected the Senate to come up with something more generous, according to four congressional aides who were briefed on the discussion and spoke on the condition of anonymity. Continue reading “Trump, in Zigzag, Calls House Republicans’ Health Bill ‘Mean’”