Joe Biden

The real “Mediscare”

By Chris Andriesen
10/12/2012
by Diane Cohen, general counsel with the Liberty Justice Center During last night’s debate, Vice President Joe Biden literally laughed off suggestions that ObamaCare sets up a death panel for Medicare recipients. This follows President Obama’s claim in the first debate that ObamaCare’s more than $700 billion cut to Medicare will not directly reduce Medicare benefits...

Fact checking Vice President Biden’s Medicare malarkey

By Jonathan Ingram
10/12/2012
In last night’s Vice Presidential debate, you might have heard Vice President Biden claim that ObamaCare “saved $716 billion [from Medicare] and put it back — applied it to Medicare.” The only problem with this claim? It’s simply not true. As the Congressional Budget Office notes, ObamaCare is expected to cut $716 billion from the Medicare...