Brutal Fact Check: 'Four Pinocchios' for Ocasio-Cortez on Ludicrous Single-Payer Healthcare Claims
Guy Benson
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Posted: Dec 05, 2018 10:25 AM
Earlier this week, I devoted an entire post to addressing a tweet from Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which appeared to endorse an idea to finance the majority of a government-run healthcare program by redirecting misallocated military spending. Virtually everything about her 'proposal,' and it may be too generous to apply that word in this particular context, was predicated on falsehoods or ignorance. The Washington Post's fact-checker waded into the controversy and slapped AOC with Four Pinocchios for her "$21 trillion mistake:"
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/12/05/update-four-pinocchios-for-ocasiocortez-on-ludicrous-single-payer-healthcare-scheme-n2536972
