Joe Biden Challenges Press to ‘Fact Check Me’
Vice President Joe Biden extended an invitation to the media to check the veracity of his claims on Medicare, telling the press to “fact check me.”
“What they’re proposing, and this is a fact. I say to the press, ‘Fact check me,’” Biden said at Zane Grey Elementary School in Zanesville. “What they’re proposing will actually cause the Medicare trust fund that pays for the benefits when you go to the hospital, the doctor, etc., to run out of money, a sufficient amount of money by 2016. That’s when it would hit the wall.”
Republicans, he said, are “not actually preserving Medicare. They’re for a whole new plan, vouchercare.”
“They’re going to give you a voucher, which is essentially a coupon, and it’s going to be worth x-amount of dollars, and they’re going to say to your mom, ‘Mom go out there in that insurance market and bargain for the best deal you can get, including if you want to buy Medicare,’” he said. “If you’re going to cost more to get the benefits you’re now getting, they say, ‘Mom go borrow it somewhere.’ No, I’m serious, you’ve got to take it out of your pocket. Ladies and gentleman, that’s not fair and that’s not truthful. What they’ve told you is not on the level.”
