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Barrasso’s Subsidy Speculation
Posted on July 22, 2011
Sen. John Barrasso engaged in wild speculation in claiming that lower-income subsidies will cost $900 billion a year under the federal health care law. He assumes that all employer-based insurance in the United States will disappear. In an op-ed for Roll Call, the Wyoming Republican and orthopedic surgeon said that …
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Sen. Barrasso’s Medicare Mistake
Posted on May 4, 2011
Sen. John Barrasso mistakenly claimed that "57 percent of doctors don’t want new Medicare patients," which isn’t true. His own spokeswoman admits he got it wrong. National surveys have put the number who don’t take new Medicare patients as low as 14 percent, and a big American Medical Association survey …
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