The next GOP scheme to manufacture Obamacare “horror stories”

[guno]

After the administration met a target of seven million new private insurance signups under the Affordable Care Act, and after pretty much every Obamacare “horror story” featured in a Koch-funded attack ad has turned out to be either completely false or extremely misleading at best, and after even some conservatives are telling their brethren to stop fooling themselves into thinking the ACA will inevitably implode, you might think that we could now start having a reasonable, factually grounded discussion about how we might improve the ACA going forward.
No such luck. In fact, there’s a new misleading “horror story” on its way: the worker whose hours are being cut back so their boss won’t have to comply with the ACA’s employer mandate. Watch out for it, because it’s coming.

So if, in the coming days, you see a story about an employer that’s trying to find ways not to cover their employees, the first thing to remember is that this an employer who is not giving their workers the benefits most people get. The second thing to remember is that the mandate has already been delayed. Companies with between 50 and 99 workers now have until 2016 to get their workers insured.


The next GOP scheme to manufacture Obamacare ?horror stories?

 

[prj]

The stories manufacturer themselves without any help from the GOP.

Also 7 million signups but who has actually paid? That's something the administration hasn't released yet.

 

[Stephanie]

what a disgusting sheep/useful tool

the gop doesn't need to MANUFACTER anything you little tool

do you ever think for yourself? or just like being lead around by the nose?

the DNCwashingtoncompost...pimping for Obama and Democrats AGAIN

shun that rag folks...they have dropped any pretense of being, UNBIASED

 

[PredFan]

And threads like this one are the left wing nut scheme to disguise the epic disaster that is obamacare.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

 

[guno]

Republican Steve Benen, Maddowblog: The longer the Affordable Care Act exists, the more Americans there will be who are thankful that it does. The University of South Florida's news outlet ran a piece this week, for example, quoting a number of local Republicans who've embraced the law. "I did not vote for Obama," Irene Jacusis said. "But I am so in love with this plan." Jacusis said she knows her party is committed to destroying the health care law she loves, but she doesn't think Republicans will actually repeal the ACA because "there are too many people out there who need this and require it." The same report quoted another local woman named Mary Fallon who, after learning her monthly premiums would drop from $768 to $150, cried with joy: "I just held my hands up in the air. Thank you, god. Finally, some relief. I couldn't do it anymore." She intends to spend the extra money in her pocked to "restart the economic engine."

And then there's the dramatic story of Mike O'Dell, who's alive today in part because of "Obamacare."
He couldn't afford a transplant. He qualified for Kansas Medicaid coverage for those with high medical expenses, but he couldn't meet the spenddown requirements to have continuous coverage.

"While we could have done the transplant even without charging him, the medication he would never be able to afford," said Dr. Andrew Kao, his heart specialist. Anti-rejection medicine costs $4,000 a month and must be taken daily to keep the new heart. […]

He couldn't get private health insurance because of his pre-existing heart condition. But as of January 1, with the health care law, insurers can no longer deny coverage. O'Dell and his wife were able to get coverage through the health insurance marketplace for $190 a month. That allowed him to go on the transplant waiting list.
The report quoted the man's wife saying, "He wouldn't be here with me or my children if it weren't for the Obamacare."


Real people, on the record, expressing their opinions about how the ACA has positively impacted their lives, and oh, by the way, the happen to belong to the party trying to take away the very thing which has changed their lives.
If you want to decry ACA, go right ahead but at least produce honest stories of anguish or hardship instead of filmmaker-produced false narratives claiming to be true.

 

[rightwinger]

Obamacare is a failure

If evidence proves to the contrary. Rinse and repeat

 

[jillian]

And threads like this one are the left wing nut scheme to disguise the epic disaster that is obamacare.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......

no.

 

[NoNukes]

Obamacare is a failure

If evidence proves to the contrary. Rinse and repeat

And Romney is leading in the polls.

 

[Rozman]

After the administration met a target of seven million new private insurance signups under the Affordable Care Act, and after pretty much every Obamacare “horror story” featured in a Koch-funded attack ad has turned out to be either completely false or extremely misleading at best, and after even some conservatives are telling their brethren to stop fooling themselves into thinking the ACA will inevitably implode, you might think that we could now start having a reasonable, factually grounded discussion about how we might improve the ACA going forward.
No such luck. In fact, there’s a new misleading “horror story” on its way: the worker whose hours are being cut back so their boss won’t have to comply with the ACA’s employer mandate. Watch out for it, because it’s coming.

So if, in the coming days, you see a story about an employer that’s trying to find ways not to cover their employees, the first thing to remember is that this an employer who is not giving their workers the benefits most people get. The second thing to remember is that the mandate has already been delayed. Companies with between 50 and 99 workers now have until 2016 to get their workers insured.


The next GOP scheme to manufacture Obamacare ?horror stories?

Now if you know our supersecret handshake as well I'm really gonna be pissed.
Someone in my group is leaking our classified strategies...

I see we need to tighten up security...