Gigolo McCain Calls New Report 'Dagger In The Heart' Of Health Care Reform
But Democrats argued the report said something very different. From a White House blog post on the report published this afternoon:A point in time when costs would increase 0.7 percent. Considering that inflation has been averaging 2% a year and a Republican Congress with us with the largest debt in America's history, its just another day of conservative screwballs slinging mud.
So how did reform's opponents manage to use this report to claim that costs will increase? They cherry-picked total expenditures at a singular, fixed point in time - ignoring the overall rate of cost growth, the impact on Medicare and America's seniors, and the fact that millions of more Americans will be covered.
It's the kind of claim folks here in Washington love. It might be technically "true" but it hardly explains the truth.
