CHARLOTTE — Former President Bill Clinton delivered a well-received speech for President Obama here on Wednesday, but several claims he made about Medicare deserve closer scrutiny.

To start, Clinton claimed that the $716 billion in cuts to Medicare benefits within Obamacare would not affect benefits. “There were no cuts to benefits,” he emphatically said. “None. What the president did was to save money by taking the recommendations of a commission of professionals to cut unwarranted subsidies to providers and insurance companies that were not making people healthier and were not necessary to get the providers to provide the service.”