GOP Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri has promised to stop spreading a health care falsehood that's been widely bandied about on the right after his local paper fact-checked his claim and called him out for fibbing.
Blunt claimed to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he wouldn't be able to get his hip replaced in countries with socialized medicine, prompting the paper to respond aggressively in an editorial:
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