{"id":1384,"date":"2004-10-12T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/pro-bush-puffery-on-economy-medicare\/"},"modified":"2004-10-12T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2004-10-12T21:00:33","slug":"pro-bush-puffery-on-economy-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/pro-bush-puffery-on-economy-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"FactCheck.org - Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article278m.html\">Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare<\/a> FactCheck.org<\/p>\n<p>New ad claims Bush inherited an economy &#8220;already in recession&#8221; and that 41 million seniors &#8220;now have access to lower cost prescriptions.&#8221; Wrong on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>Summary<\/p>\n<p>The ad by the pro-Bush group Progress for America Voter Fund claims the economy was already in a recession when Bush took office, but the National Bureau of Economic Research (which dates business cycles) says the recession actually began in March 2001, after Bush took office in January.<\/p>\n<p>The facts also get stretched when the ad claims &#8220;41 million seniors now have access to lower cost prescriptions (emphasis added).&#8221; Bush&#8217;s new prescription drug benefit will cover seniors on Medicare for an extra premium of about $35 a month, but not until 2006. Even the currently available drug discount cards have been used much less than expected. Current enrollment is less than 5 million. [<a title=\"FactCheck.org - Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare\" href=\"http:\/\/www.factcheck.org\/article278m.html\">Analysis<\/a> &#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare FactCheck.org New ad claims Bush inherited an economy &#8220;already in recession&#8221; and that 41 million seniors &#8220;now have access to lower cost prescriptions.&#8221; Wrong on both counts. Summary The ad by the pro-Bush group Progress for America Voter Fund claims the economy was already in a recession when Bush took &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/pro-bush-puffery-on-economy-medicare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pro-Bush Puffery on Economy, Medicare<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}