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To: i-node who wrote (835514)	2/9/2015 11:43:06 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1577019

A zombie Obamacare stat emerges again, earns Four Pinocchios Glenn Kessler February 3 washingtonpost.com “Under Obama, Average Family Premiums Have Increased $4,154” – Republican National Committee tweet and “fact check” The RNC circulated this talking point during the State of the Union address, and it is now popping up in the twitter feeds of Republican House members and state parties. But this is a zombie statistic; a version of it keeps coming back no matter how many times we try to debunk it. So let’s try to explain once again why it does not really say much about health-care inflation under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. The conclusion: The Pinocchio Test Regular readers know that The Fact Checker is often dubious about raw numbers that appear to have little context. Health-care premiums, like the costs of most goods, go up year after year. What matters is the rate of increase — and right now, health-care inflation is at its lowest rate in decades. So the RNC has managed to take a good-news story and tried to turn it into something negative. That alone would result in another Three Pinocchios. But in order to make the numbers look even worse, the RNC changed the baseline and went all the way back to a year before Obama became president. That’s worthy of Four Pinocchios. Is it a small thing to ask that we finally put this zombie stat to rest? Four Pinocchios