Administration Still Making False Claims on Medicare Double-Counting

Published August 5, 2010 10:30am ET



The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the Obama administration can’t double-count Medicare savings as simultaneously paying for Obamacare and strengthening Medicare’s future. The Congressional Budget Office says the administration can’t double-count Medicare cuts.

But Kathleen Sebelius is still telling Phil Klein of the American Spectator that that’s what they will do. Before cutting him off on a conference call Monday, both Jonathan Blum of the CMS and the Secretary herself refuted the CMS and CBO findings on this subject:

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