claim: says barack obama "robbed medicare (of) $716 billion to pay for ... obamacare."
author: mitt romney
evidence_1: aug 7, 2015 ... "$700 billion was robbed (from medicare) to pay for obamacare. ... under  president george w. bush, private insurers began to run a subset of ...
evidence_2: aug 24, 2012 ... republicans claim the president's $716 billion “cuts” to medicare hurt the ... mitt  romney has claimed that president barack obama has “robbed” medicare. ...  said obama “turned medicare into a piggy bank to fund obamacare,” ... they took  $716 billion from medicare to pay for their obamacare program.
evidence_3: aug 16, 2012 ... stephanie cutter, deputy senior advisor to the president, in 2011. ... but it's hard  to see how “ryan did it too” allows democrats to say that ... by contrast,  obamacare cut $716 billion from medicare in order to fund ... payment rates,” a  euphemism for reducing medicare's payments to doctors and hospitals.
evidence_4: aug 15, 2012 ... in an interview on the cbs program 60 minutes, mitt romney said obama " robbed medicare" of $716 billion to pay for "obamacare." we found ...
evidence_5: sep 21, 2012 ... president obama and the democrats didn't weaken medicare. ... ryan attacked  the president for allegedly robbing medicare of $716 billion,” former ... savings to  equal, say, three months' worth of home mortgage payments.