The conservative 60 Plus Association is attacking Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida and Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio by dredging up old exaggerations we’ve seen plenty of times before. The claims about the health care law are starting to sound like a broken record: The group claims it’s a “health care takeover” (false) and that it “cuts $500 billion from Medicare” (misleading). This also isn’t the first time the group has
gone after Brown with misleading material.
The ad attacking Brown says that the senator voted for “President Obama’s health care takeover that Ohioans overwhelmingly reject.”
As we’ve said
many times, the law doesn’t allow the government to “takeover” health care.
It’s true that it expands Medicaid eligibility and provides subsidies to lower-income persons to help them purchase insurance — private insurance, that is.
In fact, the law greatly expands business for those private insurance carriers by requiring nearly everyone to have coverage or pay a penalty.
In short, it builds on the well-established system in the U.S. of primarily employer-provided insurance.
This isn’t a single-payer system like some European countries or Canada have.
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