Claim: The chairman of the conservative 60 Plus Association made the bogus claim that the Food and Drug Administration has "declassified" a breast cancer drug "because of cost and cost alone," an example, he said, of the "rationing" of Medicare because of the federal health care law. Jim Martin, the head of 60 Plus, made the inaccurate statement in an interview with ABC News in which he also claimed that "ending Medicare as we know it happened a year ago in March …
Fact-check: 60 Plus Wrong on Rationing - FactCheck.org
Verdict: the chairman of the conservative 60 plus association made the bogus claim that the food and drug administration has "declassified" a breast cancer drug "because of cost and cost alone," an example, he said, of the "rationing" of medicare because of the federal health care law. jim martin, the head of 60 plus, made the inaccurate statement in an interview with abc news in which he also claimed that "ending medicare as we know it happened a year ago in march …
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Lori Robertson
Date published: 2011-04-28T20:50:50