Why Is It That So Many Reporters Seem to Know So Little about Obamacare?

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8. Why do so many people on DU -- otherwise well informed people -- know so little?

We had a prominent poster recently get hundreds of recs for an anti-Obamacare OP. He didn't seem to understand that drug formularies weren't an invention of the ACA, but have been in use for decades in single-payer systems; and he passed along false information a friend had told him, that insurers outside of the exchanges can still deny people for preexisting conditions.

Another active DUer insisted that under the ACA people with health conditions have to pay more for their premiums than healthy people-- which is also untrue. Whether on or off the exchanges, only two factors affect premiums (aside from subsidies based on income, which can only be obtained on the exchanges): age and smoking status.