Friday, March 6, 2009

Obama Flubbing Medical Bankruptcy Numbers?

Gary Langer from ABC News did some number crunching and found Obama to be mischaracterizing the data regarding medical bankruptcy numbers. Obama opened his his White House forum on health care reform by saying "The cost of health care now causes a bankruptcy in America every thirty seconds". The problem is that his data, based on information taken in 2001, does not support that conclusion. Read the article over at http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenumbers/2009/03/medical-bankrup.html for the comprehensive breakdown and analysis.

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