Factcheck.org responds to accusations in a tweetstorm from Senator Sanders re: Mercatus study

[JCanete]

253. first of all, I never suggested that people were intentionally propping up the Koch study here,

but for some reason people here do want to shield it from "misuse," as if it isn't what is trying to misuse its own data.

I was pointing out that you are helping to keep the intended message of that study alive just as Tapper and factcheck.org are also unintentionally doing by privileging what the study meant to say over what it did say. What it did say, in big numbers, is 32 trillion to the government. What it didn't say, was that it would save 2 trillion to the tax payer.

What it didn't give was a worst case number. It just extrapolated that it would be worse.

The point isn't about whether or not factcheck is siding with the story or not or trusting its numbers or not. I've repeated that over and over but you have to construct this strawman of my complaint so that you can keep trying to knock it down. The point is that it is trying to say the study is saying something other than what it accidentally is saying, again by reaching outside of the only numbers it provides. What are you still misunderstanding here?


as to the ALL CAPS. I don't have whole passages of all caps. Stylistically I've been using them to emphasize certain points either to make sure that they get read correctly or to draw attention to them in long blocks. Its not me shouting you down in text...which is actually a pretty hilarious concept.


It isn't bullshit to say otherwise. The ACA is NOT universal healthcare. Too many people still don't have it. Even ultimately controlling costs isn't a means of ensuring that everybody gets it. I may just be ignorant on this subject, but can you explain to me how we get 100 percent coverage in a non-single payer plan?