{"id":18150,"date":"2018-10-29T22:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T03:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=18150"},"modified":"2018-10-29T22:07:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T03:07:56","slug":"a-measure-of-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/10\/29\/a-measure-of-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"A Measure Of Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact-checkers for WaPo’s<\/strong><\/em> Fact Checker<\/strong> column are a little pissed off<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Somewhere, somehow, a memo must have gone out to Republican lawmakers who voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare: If you are attacked for undermining protections for people with existing health problems, jab back by saying the claim got Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not true. Republicans are twisting an unrelated fact check and are misleading voters. We have found at least seven politicians who have done this.<\/p>\n

Rep. Peter J. Roskam (Illinois\u2019s 6th District): In a debate on Oct. 22, he said: \u201cSean [Casten] has falsely accused me of being against protecting people with preexisting conditions and that was fact-checked by The Washington Post, who gave that four Pinocchios.” …<\/p>\n

In sum, the first six lawmakers are referring to a fact check that: a) focused on how many people had preexisting conditions, not whether the bill harmed them; b) was published before the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office issued a critical report about the possible impact on people with preexisting conditions if the bill they supported had become law.<\/p>\n

Several lawmakers referred to a sentence in the AHCA. Rep. Davis even misquotes it as: \u201cNothing in this bill shall allow insurance companies to deny anyone coverage for preexisting conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Actually, the sentence said: \u201cNothing in this Act shall be construed as permitting health insurance issuers to limit access to health coverage for individuals with preexisting conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n

This sentence was mostly a public-relations exercise, but notice the difference? It says \u201climit access to health coverage,\u201d not \u201cdeny coverage\u201d as Davis claimed. Everyone has \u201caccess\u201d to buying a Tesla, but it makes a difference whether you can afford to buy it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If the Republicans consider it important to subvert the message of the fact-checkers, it must mean the fact-checkers really are having an impact. Then throw in a misquote and the third-raters from the GOP<\/em><\/strong> just look awful.<\/p>\n

Know hope. Even if I don’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact-checkers for WaPo’s Fact Checker column are a little pissed off: Somewhere, somehow, a memo must have gone out to Republican lawmakers who voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare: If you are attacked for undermining protections for people with \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18154,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18150\/revisions\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}