Tuesday, April 1, 2014

From "Doomed" To Boom: How The Press Missed The Obamacare Comeback Story |

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/01/from-doomed-to-boom-how-the-press-missed-the-ob/198698

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Just three weeks ago the Associated Press reported the Obama administration needed "something close to a miracle" in order to "meet its goal" of enrolling six million people into private health care plans via the Affordable Care Act before the looming April 1 deadline arrived. 
The article's premise was telling in that it focused on what the political fallout would be if Obamacare sign-ups fell short. Noticeably absent was any analysis of what an Obamacare deadline success would look like or what the political implications would be. The scenario of success simply wasn't considered plausible or worth addressing.
Of course, we now know that as many as seven million people enrolled for private coverage through the exchanges established by Obama's health care law.  Thanks to an amazing consumer surge in the month of March, the seven million mark, routinely thought of last year as completely unattainable, and often dismissed this year as not possible, was  met.
i would like to take a moment to virtually stick two fingers in both eyes of the republican propaganda machine, all the dirty tricks to deny you health care and deny Pres. his place in the books goes out with a puff of e-cigarette steam in the middle of the Sahara desert in July at 12 noon.
And because of a provision of the Obamacare law, approximately three million young people have been added to their parents' private insurance plans. Meaning, more than 10 million people have used Obamacare to secure health coverage. The new law, noted the Los Angeles Times, "has spurred the largest expansion in health coverage in America in half a century." The paper reported, "At least 9.5 million previously uninsured people have gotten health insurance since Obamacare started."
and just think your local republican faction wants to keep this from you they will continue with the ever familiar rants of inaccuracy and eventually they'll go back to Benghazi and the rest, sad state of being the ones who did not want you to be safe and properly insured. not worth the vote Nov. 4th, another slam to them those who sign up are offered the chance to register to vote, how cool is that!  so far over 7 million signee's not all but that base is indicative of a large voter registration, republicans "up your nose with a rubber hose".