Three More Pinocchios: Health Care O-flation

Comment: Adding to Obamacare’s already prodigious Pinocchio trophy case, the Washington Post’s fact-checker awards Obamacare three more gold, silver, and bronze Pinocchios.

But here’s how the actuaries actually worded their assessment:

“Health spending growth for 2013 is projected to have remained slow at 3.6 percent due to the modest economic recovery, the impacts of sequestration and continued slow growth in the utilization of Medicare services, and continued increases in cost-sharing requirements for the privately insured.” 

[...] “The president earns Three Pinocchios.”

Obama’s claim that Obamacare has reduced health-care inflation ‘every single year’ since it was passed
By Glenn Kessler November 6, 2014

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