If there's any class you can rely on for being both mendacious and dumb, I'd say it's the House Republican freshman class. Case in point, Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS). Despite the fact that McKinsey and Company has been forced to admit that its own study did not provide the evidence it originally purported to, he just keeps on citing it.
"We learned last week that approximately 30% of employers anticipate dropping their health care coverage as a result of this [law]," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) at a press conference with fellow freshmen Republicans on the Hill today. "So more things are coming to light showing this simply was not a good piece of legislation."TPM followed up with Huelskamp to see if he still supported the study's findings even though McKinsey revised its findings on Monday, noting that the "survey was not intended as a predictive economic analysis of the impact of the Affordable Care Act."
"I believe so, I looked at the information they put back out, I believe the methodology that was used is accurate," he said. "It matches what I hear from small business folks across the state of Kansas."
As always, the facts have a liberal bias, and numerous other studies?designed to be predictive?contradicting McKinsey and folks in Kansas abound. As does actual, real-life experience. Which is nothing compared to a Republican's gut feeling or preferred "facts." Same as it ever was.
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