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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRollingstone - "Six Stories of Obamacare Already Making a Difference" - MSM Censored
Have you noticed how the cable media rarely interviews or highlights the thousands of people who have successfully signed up for coverage under the ACA? Instead, the media leads of with right wing talking point of the moment. Yet, the fact of the matter is that thousands have already benefitted, which the media blithely ignores.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/six-stories-of-obamacare-already-making-a-difference-20131016
Obamacare is a disaster! It's the worst thing to happen to the country since slavery! It will rape the future of our young people! It will cause wives to leave husbands and husbands to marry their dogs! OK, I made up the dog part but all the others are, sadly, 100 percent real statements made by right-wing extremists in the last few weeks.
But despite the hand-wringing and rumor-mongering, and despite some gleefully reported website glitches, around 45,000 people across the country have already enrolled in the insurance program set up by the Affordable Care Act, with almost two months left until the December 15th deadline to be covered starting in January. (Open enrollment for this first year will be available even later, through March 15th.)
For those who have enrolled, many of whom were previously uninsured or were hit with massive co-pays, Obamacare is a total success. Here are just a few of their stories:
Phil Sherburne and Leia Bell
This Utah family will pay just $123 a month to cover their family of five, despite a shoulder issue that had left Sherburne unable to get insurance before the Affordable Care Act went into effect. According to Sherburne (who is also a small business owner), the multiple efforts it took to get onto the federal exchange website were well worth it. "It's a great deal. I'm thrilled to have coverage, period," he said to the Salt Lake Tribune. "Once I got onto the site it took about an hour, start to finish."
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Rollingstone - "Six Stories of Obamacare Already Making a Difference" - MSM Censored (Original Post)
TomCADem
Nov 2013
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UCmeNdc
(9,589 posts)1. The media is presenting the perception that Obamacare is not helping anyone
Notice the MSM is not doing feel good stories along with its constant horror stories about Obamacare.
Until a positive PR campaign is run to combat the negative PR campaign that is organized against the healthcare program, Obamacare will suffer from a negative image.
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)2. drama queens.
good things taint so GRIPPING.