Despite what you may have heard in 2011:
The new health care law won’t cost many jobs (and they’ll be poorly paying jobs at that).
Republicans aren’t proposing to “end” Medicare (and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has signed onto a modified version of the GOP plan).
Most of the “millionaires” who would pay higher tax rates under a Democratic proposal aren’t job-creating small-business owners.
President Obama’s mother ...
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Not good. FactCheck is playing semantic games with the Medicare issue. If, in 10 years or so, all those turning 65 will have to use vouchers to purchase private insurance, there is no way you can call that Medicare. Right now, basic Medicare has no private component. Right now Medicare does not require the elderly to go shopping for insurance. No matter how Jackson spins this, Sen Wyden (D)'s working with the Republicans doesn't make the plan Medicare. Every single Democrat could agree with the Republicans and it would still be the end of Medicare. Yes, today's elderly will continue to be covered by traditional basic Medicare but refusing it to the next generation is the end of Medicare. Call it what you want, but it won't be Medicare. I wonder what George Orwell would make of this. Oh, and the thing about Obama's mother is not a whopper of 2011. Jackson's own text says it's a whopper of 2008.
