How Print And Broadcast Media Are Hiding Obamcare’s Success In Controlling Costs

[Playinghardball]

Jason Furman: “ACA Is Contributing To The Recent Slow Growth In Health Care Prices.” In a November 20 report, economist Jason Furman, the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), highlighted several positive impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to Furman, the ACA has already helped reduce waste and overpayment in Medicare that is “contributing to the recent slow growth in health care prices and spending.” Furman argues that reduced spending in Medicare is having an effect across the health care sector

Print Media Devote Only Five Stories To ACA’s Role In Slowed Costs. Since the release of the CEA report on November 20, the five top newspapers in the United States - The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and USA Today - issued only five articles that mentioned the ACA’s role in slowing the growth of health care costs. In the same time period, all print outlets combined issued 67 stories focusing on other aspects of the ACA rollout, including issues with the Healthcare.gov website and cancellations of individual policies. Only two outlets – USA Today and The New York Times – issued front page stories mentioning the CEA report.

More here: http://mediamatters.org/research/2013/11/27/how-print-and-broadcast-media-are-hiding-obamac/197079

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[lostincalifornia]

1. no question about it. In fact they go out of their way to present an unbalanced view. We are

lucky if you can find the positive perspective of the ACA 10% of the time from the so-called media

Even Bloomberg TV, which is usually better than most of the MSM at presenting both sides of an issue, when it comes to the Obama administration, one sees such a disproportionate of the republican and far right talking points verses the Democratic and even moderate view.

It is quite disgusting