We cited the quotes in the piece. Sanders: “Let me thank the Koch brothers, of all people, for sponsoring a study that shows that Medicare for All Act would save the American people $2 trillion over a 10-year period.” Have a good weekend.
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But Jake, as we noted, the study does find that Sanders' plan would save "the American people" $2 trillion over 10 years. Government costs go up - obviously - but national health expenditures go down. That's what Mercatus wrote. Sanders was correct.
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Happy to explain this offline if that'd be helpful - feel free to DM me (though Matt is really the best person to talk to, as he's been following this closest & is the person who originally noted the finding that Sanders cited & brought it to people's attention).
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Ben, it's not about a CNN puppet stating correct facts or being disingenuous, it's about whether the businesses that give them ad revenue will continue doing so in the future.
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Yeah, that's really a screaming factual error on Jake's part. What's worse is that it's the kind of error that would be hard to make if you're familiar with the basic facts of this issue.
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Jake's problem is that, as a Respectable Centrist, he takes it to be an a priori truth that the crazy leftists are obviously wrong. Thus, he doesn't feel the need to actually look too closely into the issue to see if they are, in fact, wrong.
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Sure, the only person telling him that Bernie is wrong is this extremely biased source. But, that doesn't really matter because the left simply *must* be wrong. So, no need to look into the source's claims, as they are credible in virtue of the fact that they confirm his priors.
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The Mercatus guy is obviously being deceptive but what's weird is this particular glaring error doesn't seem to have originated with him. It appears far more likely that Jake & co. came up with it themselves — and they did so because they don't understand this issue at all.
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That said, obviously Sanders and all his Crazee Hippie friends are Wrong and Crazee. I mean, it's right there in their name.
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I don’t think this was Jake. It’s a partnership with http://factcheck.org and he (not unreasonably) trusted them to do an accurate fact check.
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Why are all the "fact check" websites so bad at even capturing what a fact is? It's mind-boggling.
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It’s deeply frustrating.
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People fact checking a paper on healthcare policy without knowing healthcare policy is the only way this type of obvious mistake gets made and then when others point out still don't think it's a mistake.
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TRUTH, and it's really quite simple, OF COURSE we would all have to chip in a portion of our taxes to make ANY program revenue neutral, in most cases, yet Universal coverage will cost us as individuals roughly HALF what it does now WITHOUT Corporate Insurance Vulture Capitalists.
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