Bernie Sanders calls for withdrawal of Washington Post's "inaccurate" fact check

BErnie sanders's 2020 campaign called for the Washington Post Fact Checker removes its recent analysis that the Vermont senator claimed that "500,000 Americans bankrupt each year due to medical bills" were "imperfect".

"I am writing to you about the Washington Post Fact Checker's analysis of August 28, entitled:" Sanders Erroneous Statistics: 500,000 Medical Bankruptcies a Year, "wrote in a letter to the President. To post the Saturday. "We demand that Swiss Post immediately publish a retraction and inform its readers of this decision."

the To postThe fact-finder had released three "pinocchios" for this claim, claiming that the Democratic presidential candidate had engaged in a "classic case of selecting a number in a scientific study and forcing him to make a political point ".

The Fact Checker added that the Sanders study did not establish a causal link for the 500,000 cases and included "anyone who mentioned medical expenses or illness as the reason for declaring bankruptcy, not just those who said it was primary reason or a big piece. "

"He says medical debts caused these 500,000 bankruptcies, "noted the point of sale." However, the correlation is not a causal link. "

Sanders' campaign, however, challenged the analysis, calling his "global premise" absurd.

"The Post fact checker has published Senator Sanders' three pinocchios for specifically citing a peer-reviewed editorial published in the American Journal of Public Health," writes the campaign. "La Poste even notes that the author of the editorial confirmed that Senator Sanders had correctly quoted his work.

The letter then describes several other factual inquiries against Sanders, accusing the Washington Post "much broader trend" against the senator.

"We hope that you will address Senator Sanders' inappropriate coverage with Fact Facter – first by immediately withdrawing this most recent article and then by engaging the newspaper to cover Senator Sanders in a fair, professional and ethical manner. ethics, which is finally beginning to respect the most basic principles, standards of precision, "he concluded.

Sanders repeated this statement on at least two occasions this month, once during an interview with CNN and another time in a tweet.

Sanders has criticized the media, having recently criticized the "corporate media". At the Iowa State Fair earlier this month, some of his staff even mistreated members of the press to cover the event.