The groups ad,with the Senate Majority PAC, claims that Cotton supported a plan that essentially ends Medicare and costs some seniors $6,000 more a year. Sound familiar? We debunked those same distortions from this very same Democratic group last July were only a week shy of publishing this story on the same day we posted last years. The ad also throws in the convoluted claim that Cotton, by voting to repeal the Affordable Care act, was voting Congress taxpayer-funded health care for life.
, an Army veteran and lawyer whos a freshman in the House, hasnt declared his candidacy, but Democratic Sen. Mark Pryorin 2014.
So, the target forand Senate Majority PAC is new; the tactics, not so much. In fact, as Glenn Kessler, the Washington Posts Fact Checker,in writing about this ad, all three major fact-checking organizations (,and ) have previously debunked these claims.
Lets start with the claim that Cotton was voting Congress taxpayer-funded health care for life. Actually, Cottona bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which requires members of Congress and their staffs to get health insurance through the exchanges created by the law. If the ACA were to be repealed, members of Congress and their staffs would continue to get their health insurance through the , an exchange-like program that offers a choice of many private plans to more than 8 million federal employees and retirees.
In other words, one impact of repealing the law would be that Congress would continue getting health insurance from the FEHB program, which .
Its true that federal government retireesthrough the FEHB program as long as theyre eligible for an immediate annuity and were enrolled in the program for at least five years before retirement. And the government pays a good chunk of federal employees premiums: an average of 72 percent. Its largely taxpayer-funded, just as most work-based coverage is largely employer-funded. But thats expected to still be the case once members start getting insurance through the exchanges. Thereson Capitol Hill that the transition wont be that smooth, but congressional staffs are expected to get the same benefits, simply from a different insurance source.
Medicare MemoriesAs we mentioned, nearly one year ago, wethe claims that lawmakers supported a plan to end Medicare that would have cost seniors an additional $6,000. (And the claims were old even then the end Medicare claim made our list.) The reference is to the budget plan from Rep. Paul Ryan but the end Medicare quote is taken out of context, and the $6,000 claim pertains to his plan from 2011. That was before Cotton was even elected.The ad says Cotton was supporting a plan that the Wall Street Journal said essentially ends Medicare, as the phrase essentially end Medicare and a citation for the Journal pops up on screen. But thesaid that Ryans plan would essentially end Medicare as a program that directly pays those bills.
Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2011: The plan would essentially end Medicare, which now pays most of the health-care bills for 48 million elderly and disabled Americans, as a program that directly pays those bills.
Thats not the same as saying Ryans plan would put an end to a government plan for health insurance for seniors. His plan would have been a big change: He called for a premium-support system, where the government would send payments, like subsidies, to private insurance companies that would compete for seniors business on a Medicare exchange. He proposed implementing such a system for new beneficiaries beginning a decade in the future. The government would be paying insurance carriers, rather than directly paying health care bills.
While the Democratic claims havent changed in two years, Ryans plan has. His latest plans called for traditional Medicare to remain an option on his Medicare exchange.
As for the claim about some seniors paying thousands more under the Ryan plan, CBO did find, for the 2011 plan, that seniors with private plans would pay more than they would under the traditional Medicare system, and its analysis indicated that in 2022, a 65-year-old would pay about $6,000 more. The subsidies under that plan were set to increase with the rate of inflation.
But Ryans subsequent plans upped the rate of increase. CBO has only said of the latest plan that beneficiaries might face higher costs, but there was no more definitive estimate than that. Patriot Majority, however, hasnt updated its attacks. It offers the same distortion it pushed a year ago.
The plan Ryan introduced in , and the one Cottonin favor of, echoes his 2012 plan. The groups behind the ad point to athat Cotton sent from his personal account supporting Ryans Medicare plan: Medicare needs reform, and @RepPaulRyan has a bipartisan plan to fix it: http://bit.ly/sBZnL4. #ar4 #argop #tcot. But thats a reference to the plan Ryan was about to introduce in 2012, as evidenced by the link to aarticle on that topic.
Heres hoping theres no Groundhog Day in the summer of 2014.
Lori Robertson
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