New York Times: McCain Distorts Obama Health Care Plan Again.

October 15th 2008 in Lies

“As in the second debate, Mr. McCain charged that small businesses would be fined under Mr. Obama’s health plan if they did not pay for health coverage as mandated by the government. And Mr. Obama, again, corrected him by pointing out that his plan would exempt small businesses from the requirement that employers either provide coverage for their workers or pay into a fund to subsidize coverage for the low-income uninsured.” [New York Times blog, 10/15/08: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/check-point-the-grand-finale/]

New York Times: McCain Falsely Says Obama Supports “Single Payer.”

“Mr. McCain said: ‘Senator Obama wants to set up health care bureaucracies, take over the health care of America through — as he said, his object is a single-payer system. If you like that — you’ll — you would love Canada and England.’ Mr. McCain was wrong in saying that Mr. Obama’s proposal called for [...]

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Washington Post Fact Checker: McCain Recycled False Tax Claim.

“McCain just recycled a frequent claim, that Obama has voted to raise taxes on people making $42,000 a year. It’s based on Obama’s vote this year in support of a non-binding Democratic budget resolution that would allow the Bush tax cuts to expire in 2011 and 2013. Independent analysts have asserted this claim is misleading [...]

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