LA Times Fact check: Romney repeats erroneous claims on healthcare

[Playinghardball]

Mitt Romney repeated a number of erroneous claims during Wednesday’s debate about President Obama’s healthcare law, including that it relies on a board that will decide "what kind of treatment” patients can get.

This is a myth advanced repeatedly by critics of the Affordable Care Act and debunked consistently by independent fact-checkers.

The board – known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board – was set up to recommend ways to reduce Medicare spending if it increases too rapidly.

The panel of independent experts is empowered to suggest cuts to how much the federal government pays healthcare providers. These cuts would go into effect unless Congress votes to overturn them.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-72703685/

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Romney lied?

What else is new?

It would be news if he told the truth.