Chuck Todd and Meet the Press finally came clean on Obamacare albeit less stinging to Republican failures as it should have been. He started the piece noting that the Supreme Court case, King v. Burwell, could severely damage the law.
Last week I wrote "When will political malpractice stop being rewarded?" where I said the following:
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was in Washington recently. Virtually every potential candidate spoke out against Obamacare. Ted Cruz called it a train wreck. Maybe he was thinking about the healthcare train wreck in Texas. After all, by refusing to take back $100 billion dollars in Texas taxpayer dollars from the federal government in the form of the Medicaid Expansion to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), over one million Texans remain uninsured. This political malpractice will kill millions of Texans. The traditional mainstream media simply reported Ted Cruz’s statement. No context was provided. He said this in the same week Gallup reported that in fact Obamacare is not a train wreck but a policy that is actually reducing the uninsured rate.
Well, Chuck Todd did his job, well mostly did his job. The recent Gallup data simply confirms what was known and what should have been reported ad nauseam while Republicans continued using the media to lie to their constituents.
Chuck Todd pointed out the fact that Obamacare is dramatically lowering the uninsured rate throughout the country. He pointed out that the states with the biggest drop in uninsured rates were in fact two of the poorer states in the nation with Democratic governors who accepted the Medicaid Expansion to Obamacare. He pointed out that the only state that showed an increase in the uninsured rate was Kansas, a state controlled almost entirely by Republicans and a state that refused to take the Medicaid expansion to Obamacare.
Chuck Todd failed to mention that the Obamacare marketplace is making health insurance in the aggregate more affordable. He also failed to mention that in fact Obamacare is bending the cost curve more and faster than expected.every since the announcement and cancelling of the more left leaning host on MSNBC and their stating that they were abandoning liberal reporting in favor of right wing hypocrisy and misinformation. i must admit while trying to see the difference i'm noticing both sides which is good but then again not so good if they continue to let the right wing lies stand. in this article Todd it looks like is trying to redeem himself somewhat from lopsided reporting but adding the other view and not correcting the fact that it's misleading IMO only further confuses those on the fence or the wrong side of history.
same thing with morning joe he goes from one side tothe other defending then criticizing then back again. it is not informative because you are left with "WHAT"? and you walk away with a bunch of nothing. they need to go back to one point or the other the way they are doing it now i don't think will bring in the viewers they think. right wingers will get disillusioned when they make a case for Progressives which contrast what they just said about republicans and vice versa. terrible marketing idea.
Todd, you can see the look of a torn man all over his face like he's being compromised which way not sure but it looks as though it's getting to him big time.
