Seven Falsehoods About Health Care: Big myths about the current debate

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Seven Falsehoods About Health Care
Big myths about the current debate
By Brooks Jackson, Viveca Novak, Lori Robertson and Jess Henig
factcheck.org
August 14, 2009

Summary
So much for a slow news month. August feels like campaign season, with claims on health care coming at us daily. Does the House bill call for mandatory counseling on how to end seniors' lives sooner? Absolutely not. Will the government be dictating to doctors how to treat their patients? No. Do the bills propose cutting Medicare benefit levels? No on that one, too.

But on the other hand, has Congress figured out how to pay for this overhaul? Not yet. Or will it really save families $2,500 a year as the president keeps claiming? Good luck on that one, too.

In this article we offer a run-down of seven falsehoods we've taken on recently, with some additional updating and research thrown in.

Please read the complete article at:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/211981/page/1