Medicare for All Fact Check From Hell Persists as Sanders Rebukes CNN for Putting 'Blind Faith' in
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Pointing to the table in the Mercatus Center analysis that shows Medicare for All would save the American people $2 trillion over ten years—while also providing healthcare for everyone—Sanders accused CNN and other corporate media outlets of putting "blind faith" in Chuck Blahous, the right-wing author of the Mercatus study who deceptively insists that his numbers are being taken out of context.
"What Tapper and others have done is say we're wrong because Blahous didn't actually intend to find that Medicare for All would be a great deal for Americans," Sanders noted in a series of tweets. "The problem is: Blahous did find it would save $2 trillion—he just doesn't like that people are celebrating it."
Among the articles Tapper linked to was a "fact check" by the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, which had to be corrected multiple times after People's Policy Project founder Matt Bruenig highlighted the number of blatant factual mistakes it contained.
"They are all wrong," Bruenig wrote of the self-proclaimed fact-checkers Tapper cited. "Jake, to talk about the fact-checkers as if they are separate evaluations is nonsense. Each one of them got the same spin from the same Mercatus author who has been doing intentional outreach to get people like you to say this stuff. It's the same poisoned source."
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dollars in savings to the American People over a ten year period.
Of course Blahous of the Koch funded Mercatus Center wasn't happy with those results so he created a second alternate reality scenario NOT based on Bernie's actual bill.
When Bernie rightfully cited the savings that the report reflects within his bill, Blahous falsely stated that Bernie's was basically cherry picking just because Bernie didn't cite the author's findings in the alternate reality world of NOT Bernie's bill.
Some fact checkers kneejerked with Blahous' lies at worst and misunderstanding at best to claim that Bernie was being disingenuous for not citing Blahous' assumption (s) that wasn't based on the actual bill sponsored by Bernie aka; Medicare for All.
So Blahous and the fact checkers changed the frame of the report by Koch Brothers funded Mercatus Center which in truth actually cites Medicare for All as saving the American People over two trillion dollars over a ten year period to Bernie was "cherry picking" or telling a half truth.
Why on earth should Bernie be citing a segment of the report by a natural antagonist that isn't even based on Bernie's bill? 
