Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky has released her first attack ad, mischaracterizing Sen. Mitch McConnell's voting record on overhauling Medicare.
In
the ad, a retired coal miner asks how he and his wife are supposed to
afford the extra $6,000 in Medicare costs that McConnell voted for.
But
the plan McConnell supported in 2011 would not have increased that
family's Medicare costs because it exempted people who are in or near
retirement from any changes to the program.
It would have privatized Medicare over time, which some analysts said would have eventually increased costs.
Shaky
claims about Medicare privatization were common in the 2012 campaign
and now have surfaced in one of the hottest races of this year's midterm
elections.
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