"Where are the positive stories about Obamacare?"

[TomCADem]

Here is a great story documenting some of the corporate censorship that is going on as the news media bends over backwards to help their corporate sponsors elect right wing Republicans.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20140323,0,1622096.column#axzz2wp4zeidk

If there were fairness in this world, Rita Rizzo would be a media star.

Rizzo, 60, owns a management consulting firm for nonprofit groups and government offices in Akron, Ohio, with her husband, Lou Vincent, 64. Vincent, who suffers from Type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, has gone without health insurance for 10 years. "We got 30 denial letters," Rizzo told me last week.

Three years ago, Rizzo got a hip replacement. Her own insurance premiums were going to rise by $500 a month, to about $800, so she chose instead to triple her deductible to $6,000 to keep the increase to a mere $150 a month.

The couple used a $5,000 tax-deductible health savings account to cover her out-of-pocket expenses; Vincent's medication, which ran to $178 a month; and his blood work-ups, at $2,400 a year.

In December, Rizzo signed up for Obamacare. She now has a policy that covers her and Vincent together, including all his meds and lab work, for $379 a month, with a $2,000 family deductible.

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But you haven't heard Rizzo's story unless you tuned in to NBC Nightly News on New Year's Day or scanned a piece by Politico about a week later. In the meantime, the airwaves and news columns have been filled to overflowing with horrific tales from consumers blaming Obamacare for huge premium increases, lost access to doctors and technical frustrations — many of these concerns false or the product of misunderstanding or unfamiliarity with the law.

[lostincalifornia]

1. Then why don't the Democrats put ads up like the koch brothers? You can forget about the MSM.

[TomCADem]

4. Yeah, why don't workers, environmentalists put together a billion dollar superpac?

I assume you are asking to be facetious, rather than attacking the left for not competing with the corporate right wing in terms of hijacking the national discussion.

[lostincalifornia]

7. I am talking about the DNC Tom. A lot of money was left from 2012. Agree we cannot compete on a

Billion dollar level, but when we have Democrats running away from the ACA and other landmark legislation, what are they running on to distinguish themselves from repukes

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. Here you go...

https://www.healthcare.gov/connect/

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Wonders never cease.

This morning our rightwing paper featured an editorial in which the publisher actually comes out in favor of ACA.

Smith: Affordable Care Act isn’t perfect, but coverage is a relief
http://www.greeleytribune.com/news/10726075-113/health-insurance-care-coverage

The piece is, of course, behind a pay wall. But the gist is that his daughter, with a history of leukemia and other cancers, now has insurance, and he's pretty darned happy about that. He says the law isn't perfect, but fixing it - not repealing it - is the answer.

Damned near fell off my chair when I read it.

[Hoyt]

5. What's sad is that he would not have cared if it had been somebody else's daughter. But, I'll take

whatever good press we can get.

[justhanginon]

6. Why does it always seem that the

right wingers are against something if it helps you or me but as soon as it has a benefit to them personally they change their tune, albeit grudgingly. Sad that they cannot just do or be in favor of something for the greater good of the general citizenry of this country. I will never understand and maybe that is a good thing.

[blkmusclmachine]

8. ACA = RepublicanCare (even though they deny it now)