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Scott Tiption 
Mon May 07, 2012 at 09:36:20 AM MST
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We'll be hearing a lot about Medicare this election season, and reporters should study up on some of the expected flashpoints, so they can challenge candidates who try to deceive us.
A case in point is Rep. Scott Tipton's appearance on 9News' YourShow Sunday.
"When we're talking about health care, I think we need to get the facts on the table," Tipton told YourShow host Brandon Rittiman. "The President, this administration, and the people who support them voted to take away $575 billion dollars out of Medicare, hurting our senior citizens."
As I've reported before, nonpartisan fact checkers have found this to be mostly or completely false. Politifact found the statement, "The new health care law 'will cut $500 billion from Medicare. That will hurt the quality of our care,'" to be deep in its "mostly false" category, which is as false as its ratings go. Fact checkers at the Washington Post also found that the $500 billion is saved in Medicare efficiencies, which are "wrung from health-care providers, not Medicare beneficiaries."
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