Krystal Ball: Washington Post "fact check" proves Bernie right

[Gothmog]

9. According to the facts in this article, the Washington Post is correct

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In this case, The Post's fact-check mentioned that some critics believe that Sanders' use of the 500,000 figure — which was from an editorial published in the American Journal of Public Health — was perhaps casting "too wide a net." The fact-check said that the actual study published in the journal surveyed people who had gone bankrupt in part due to medical bills, not necessarily entirely because of their medical bills.

"Sanders glosses over those nuances, stating that health-care costs drove people to bankruptcy in all 500,000 cases. The study he's citing doesn't establish that," The Post's article said. …..

In a response shared with Business Insider, the Post's managing editor Cameron Barr wrote to Gunnels that the points of contention raised by the Sanders campaign don't hold up.

"That study did not seek to determine what causes bankruptcies, only factors that contribute to them. On this basis alone, the statements by Sen. Sanders are misleading," Barr wrote.

Barr also denied the "pattern of bias" against Sanders that his campaign claimed, writing that it was "categorically false."

"Though the Sanders campaign may not like some of our coverage, it has been fair, professional and accurate," he wrote.