The flood of falsehoods about the health care law

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/mar/21/health-care-fact-checking/

By Martha M. Hamilton
Published on Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

The Affordable Care Act, the Democrats' health care law, has often been defined more by falsehoods than truths.

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Eliminating "Obamacare" … "saves $95 billion a year." Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney liked this claim so much he made it at least twice in the past year, on Nov. 4, 2011, and again in January 2012. It's true that the law spends money providing tax subsidies to help people buy insurance and expanding the Medicaid health insurance for the very poor. But it also slows the growth of future spending on Medicare and imposes new taxes and fees to help offset the deficit. If you look at both spending and new revenue the actual savings from repealing the law would be much smaller -- $16 billion. And, over the long haul, repealing the law actually adds significantly to the deficit. So this claim earns a False.


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I didn't post most of the false statements this article addresses because research has shown that when people read a refutation of a falsehood, often they will later recall the lie, and not the fact that it is a lie. If you read some statement that seems unlikely (if you are a skeptic) or makes you mad at the bill (if you are gullible), you might want to check out this link to see if they address it.
It boggles my mind the silly stuff people will accept as fact w/o question.