Here are some Affordable Care Act ("ObamaCare") stories you almost certainly will not see on "fair and balanced" Fox News. Michael Hiltzik, of the Los Angeles Times, did some real reporting of the sort that Megyn Kelly and her colleagues are probably either afraid or unwilling to do. That's probably because what he has to say goes contrary to Fox's ObamaScare message.
These are the stories you're not hearing amid the pumped-up panic over canceled individual policies and premium shocks--many of which stories are certainly true, but the noise being made about them leads people to think they're more common than they are.
We've compiled several alternative examples for this post. They're anecdotes, sure, just like the anecdotes you've been seeing and reading about people learning they'll be paying more for coverage next year.
The difference is that Americans learning that they'll be eligible for coverage perhaps for the first time, or at sharply lower cost, are far more typical of the individual insurance market. Two-thirds of the 30 million Americans who will be eligible for individual coverage next year are uninsured today, whether because they can't afford it now or because they're barred by pre-existing condition limitations, which will no longer be legal. And more than three-quarters will be eligible for subsidies that will cut their premium costs and even co-pays and deductibles substantially.
Hiltzik goes on to list examples of people not just saving money on their coverage but getting coverage they had previously been unable to attain before the Affordable Care Act passed. Even some who may be paying more in premiums face substantial savings via improved benefits. But what's most telling is that he provides statistics and an overall perspective of the individual health insurance market that has always been suspiciously lacking from Fox News' all anti-ObamaCare coverage, nearly all the time.
As Tommy Christopher noted, at Mediaite:
The avalanche of negative early reporting on the Obamacare rollout has taken a severe toll on the Democrats, and on the law itself, but as the enrollment problems get sorted out, stories like the ones Hiltzik highlights will become more numerous, and they won’t just be told in the media, they’ll be told around dinner tables and water coolers. That’s why Republican opposition to the law has been so urgent, because once the thing gets going, all those people who are better off will become voters that they won’t get.
And where will that leave the GOP's television channel, aka Fox News? Here's hoping it will be as discredited as their phony attacks on ObamaCare
insurance has deductables, max out of pocket and shared costs paid for by insurance and enrollee. over 60% births are paid for by medicaid. with this plan its paid by insurance and the enrollee. its time they pay for the decision they make to bring a child into this world.
We said it before and we’ll say it again:
Being uninsured is OK!
