Liberal site PolitiFact admits it has no idea what will happen with Medicaid, but still calls Rubio's expectation 'mostly false'

I've told you this many times and I'm going to keep telling you: Media "fact checkers" are not what they claim to be. They do not check facts. They argue opinions. And they always do so from a left-wing perspective. Our latest example comes from PolitiFact, which presumes to make a "ruling" on a statement by Marco Rubio about the likely effect of the Senate's health care bill on Medicaid in Florida. (How full of yourselves do you have to be to issue "rulings" on statements other people make?) Rubio believes those currently receiving benefits will not lose their benefits as a result of the changes. PolitiFact calls that belief "mostly false," which is a curious thing for them to say since they admit they have no idea what will happen:

"As long as Florida keeps the same amount of funding or gets an increase, which is what we are working on, per patient being rewarded for having done the right thing -- there is no reason for anybody to be losing any of their current benefits under Medicaid. None," he said in a Facebook Live on June 28. "In fact, I asked the governor that point-blank, I asked the legislative leaders that point-blank. They have no plans, even if this bill passes, to kick anybody out of current services." Really -- no reason? We can’t know for certain what changes Florida will make to its Medicaid program down the road if the Senate bill becomes law. However, Rubio is making too strong of a vow here that there is no reason for anyone to lose Medicaid benefits. Here’s what we know: the Senate bill slows the rate of Medicaid dollars that the federal government gives to the states. This will force states to make tough choices, one potential being cutting enrollment. Some of the changes won’t happen for many years, delaying those choices for states.

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So how does PolitiFact demonstrate that it's "mostly false" people will not lose their benefits? They don't. They go through different scenarios that are possible, some of which involve people losing benefits, some of which do not. They have no insight whatsoever on whether one of these scenarios or another one entirely will become true. So is Rubio's statement true or false? No one knows, because no one can say until things actually play out and we see if people lose benefits or not. What Rubio offered was his expectation about what wil happen. It's possible he will turn out to be wrong, but at this point no one can say. So where does PolitiFact get off calling Rubio's preduction "mostly false"? That's not a fact. That's their opinion. And a prediction about the future can't be "mostly false." Over time, it will prove to be either true or false, but right now it's nothing more than one man's prediction and it's no more true or false than anything else someone predicts about the future. This is why these media "fact-checker" sites are not fact-checkers at all. They're liberal opinion writers. PolitiFact disagrees with Rubio's expectation about how health care reform will affect Medicaid in Florida. That's fine. That's their opinion, just as Rubio has his. But neither is a "fact" at that point. They're just predictions and expectations, and PolitiFact is full of crap when it presumes to issue a "ruling" that calls Rubio's expecation "mostly false." What's entirely false is that so-called "fact-checkers" like PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, the Washington Post's Glenn Kessler or the so-called "Michigan Truth Squad" are authoritative arbiters of truth or fact. They are not. And if you see people on social media posting links to these sites as if they settle arguments, you should challenge that premise. They don't settle anything. It's just one more opinion, except that this opinion is disguised as a "ruling" on the facts. Don't be fooled by that disguise.