'Fact Check' has become synonymous with left wing arguements that ignore inconvenient facts

NY Times:

Five Misleading Republican Claims About Health Care

Republicans have misinformed Americans on the Senate health care bill’s impact in several areas and have exaggerated the Affordable Care Act’s problems.
It is not an exaggeration to say that a law that causes a truck driver's health insurance to go from around $400 to around $2,500 a month is a law that sucks.  And this is with a $5,000 deductible which makes the insurance practically worthless for most medical conditions.

What I find interesting is the complete lack of empathy on the left for the victims of this bad law because they favor aspects of it that give coverage to people who don't have to pay.

Then there are the single moms who work and have seen their healthcare insurance double and quadruple as they get kicked off of one plan and have to search for another.  Nope, there is no empathy for them either.

The whole "fact check" genre is being discredited by the left's tendentious defense of liberalism rather than focusing on the entire picture and the harm caused by liberalism.  Obamacare has been an abomination to those in the individual market whose choices have shrunk as their costs skyrocket.  It takes willful blindness not to see the damaged caused by this law.

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