Over the past two years, one of the main talking points that conservatives and others who disagree with President Obama's health care reform legislation have charged is that the bill took $500 billion out of Medicare to pay for the startup of the program.
Democrats have occasionally objected in debates, but never too convincingly, leaving the charge hanging out there. But fact-checking groups have called the allegation spurious.
Now because he is subject to an attack on this very subject in new television ads being paid for by the Florida Chamber of Commerce, Florida Democratic incumbent Bill Nelson is objecting, with his attorney sending a letter to every Florida TV station to kill their run of the ad.
This article appears in May 10-16, 2012.