Bush's Claim about a Silly Obama Promise

We also have often found that the more complex an issue, the more likely it will be subject to a false claim. That’s certainly the case with health care, where both parties have played games with the numbers.

This statement by former Florida governor Jeb Bush is a particularly instructive example. It started with a misleading claim by then-Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning for the presidency in 2008. It then has morphed into a recurring GOP claim that has been repeatedly been proven false by The Fact Checker, FactCheck.org, and PolitiFact. And yet here it is again.