Reality Check: Column Ignores Facts about Health Reform
Follow this link to the reality check article posted on the White House blog. The intial paragraph of the blog best explains its purpose.
In today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer takes great pains to paint a bleak picture of health care reform as “monstrous,” “overregulated,” and rife with “arbitrary bureaucratic inventions.” The columnist’s argument may be cogent and well-written, but it is wholly inaccurate.
This reality check was written by the new Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer on November 27, 2009 at 05:14 PM EST. The article has many links to background information including a link to Krauthammer’s article.
The thing that I liked about this item is that it cites specific sections of the House of Representatives health care reform bill to demonstrate that the bill contains items that its critics say it lacks.
Prior to this posting, I was able to look into the bill to counter claims of things people said were in the bill but were actually not in the bill. I hadn’t figured out a way to sift through the massive bill to find things in it that critics claimed were missing.
I have not checked the sections quoted in the article yet. I have created this blog posting to record the location of the article for future reference. As I see some of the claims made again that I have seen before, I will be able to look them up and demonstrate that the claim is false.