WAPO: "Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's media blitz"

[JCanete]

68. That whole passage about Medicare for All and the Koch study sounds like total bullshit.

It is literally obfuscating the truth by repeating the same bullshit about government expenditures, as if that isn't the number we are comparing to current healthcare costs. What the fuck gives? That's just embarrassing. "The Koch brother's study makes clear..." presumably just by saying it since their evidence is in the numbers and says the opposite, "that this is an unrealistic assumption." Wow. That really instills confidence in me when Wapo takes at face value a throwaway statement in the study meant to dismiss the findings. Brilliant!


As to her statement about the upper middle class. I thought that was odd when I heard her say it, and it just makes more sense for her to be talking about the middle class. I'm not that bothered by that one, but it is off by degrees and is quirky. Wapo's assessment of the middle class slightly dipping is tragic, given that wages have been stagnant for a loooong fucking time and cost of living, insurance, etc. have continued to increase. This kind of dismissive rhetoric makes this feel like a puff piece for the status quo.