Vice Presidential Candidates Spar Over Medicare

It’s hardly surprising that Thursday night’s vice presidential debate in Danville, Ky., would feature a spirited debate about Medicare. GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan is the author of a controversial Medicare proposal that Democrats have been campaigning against for more than a year now.

But fact checkers have raised some flags about some of the claims the candidates made.

For example, here’s Joe Biden, delivering the Democrats’ favorite attack line against the GOP plan: “Their ideas are old and their ideas are bad, and they eliminate the guarantee of Medicare.”