Even Fox Defends Obama's "Keep What You Have," Meaning No Changes In It

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Obama Promised People Could Keep Their Health Plans: 24 Times!

Number of Times Obama Promised People Could Keep Their Health Plans: 24 - Katie Pavlich

 

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For those who were looking for a link - here it is, and it shows that some of the horror stories are just misinformation from clueless people. So much for rw claims that CBS is partisan left!

I hate to see the reaction when Obamacare has been in place, and even some Republicans will admit to liking it, what the extreme rw'ers who are whining about it now, are going to say about it then! Oh, they'll just try to screw it up, like Ryan tried to do to Medicare!


Well you will never believe who poked giant holes through this 'report': Fox News' Greta Van Sustern.

Greta teed up the interview using the same setup as Crawford’s piece, that Barrette is “finding out she will have to pay 10 times as much for health insurance” because “she is losing her current plan to Obamacare.”
“I have a copy of your Florida Blue insurance and it’s about $54 a month,” Greta continued, “and now I understand that under Obamacare, it’s going to go up, at least they said that the policy they would offer you under Florida Blue, would be $591; is that correct?”

Actually, the plan BCBSFL was only one of many plans Dianne has to choose from, 10 of which are cheaper than that $591, and based on her income, she’d only pay around $209 a month, but Greta did cut right to the chase about the quality of her old plan.

“Your $54 a month policy is a pretty, you know, bare bones policy, “Greta said. “Why do you want to keep that one, except for the price? Maybe you can get something better with a subsidy?”

Ms. Barrette goes on to say that this 'insurance' is perfect for what she needs: a doctor visit copay and prescription copay, and maybe some outpatient services. It turns out that she actually had that reversed and the insurance company paid a $50 'copay' towards a doctor visit, and $15 for prescriptions, and she herself was responsible for all the rest of the costs. The interviewee acknowledged no hospital stays were covered in response to Greta's question.
Now this is exactly the type of junk insurance Obamacare is meant to do away with, and it is not surprising that people don't know what their insurance covers. But a reporter with a major news outlet should have done some reporting and learned that. So it should be of great embarassment to CBS to be shown up that way by Fox filling in missing facts in their story.

What is funny though is that a subsequent interview that was to take place on Fox News with Ms. Barrette, was cancelled, after Greta poked holes in the story.


Daily Kos: Wow! Fox Corrects CBS News Obamacare Insurance Plan Loss "Horror Story"

Oh good. Fox says so. I feel better now/.

I know what you mean.......but let's just say it was by accident that they pwned their own rhetoric!