Nearly every line of President Trump's USA Today op-ed contained a false or misleading statement.

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USA Today not only published a White House press release disguised as an “op-ed by Donald Trump,” it is using its Twitter account to blast out the article’s lies to 3.6 million followers.

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Fact Checker Analysis
Fact-checking President Trump’s USA Today op-ed on ‘Medicare-for-All’


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/10/fact-checking-president-trumps-usa-today-op-ed-medicare-for-all/?utm_term=.e248115ea2a5

Nearly every line of President Trump's USA Today op-ed contained a false or misleading statement. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
By Glenn Kessler
October 10 at 11:21 AM

President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans — known as Medicare-for-All — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.

Many of these are claims we have already debunked. Presumably, the president is aware of our fact checks — he even links to two — but chose to ignore the facts in service of a campaign-style op-ed. Medicare-for-All is a complex subject, and serious questions could be raised about the cost and how a transition from today’s health-care system would be financed. Trump correctly notes that studies have estimated that the program — under the version promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — would add $36 trillion in costs to the federal government over 10 years.

But this is not a serious effort to debate the issue. So as a reader service, we offer a guide through Trump’s rhetoric...................................

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