"New anti-Obamacare ad makes misleading claims (video)"

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New anti-Obamacare ad makes misleading claims (video)

By Glenn Kessler at the Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2014/03/25/new-anti-obamacare-ad-makes-misleading-claims-video/?tid=rssfeed

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The Facts

“Millions of people have lost their health insurance”

We’ve repeatedly written about this claim, most recently when House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) incorrectly claimed that so many people have lost insurance that there’s even been “a net loss” of people with insurance. Actually, there has been an increase in the number of people with insurance, though not as much as the Obama administration had hoped.

The Associated Press estimated that nearly 5 million Americans had their insurance canceled, but a large percentage of the people whose old plans were canceled were automatically moved to new plans offered by the same insurance companies. These people may not be happy with their new coverage, but they got a plan without going through HealthCare.gov. Precise figures are not available, as the insurance market is private and fragmented, but insurance company officials say a majority of people could move to new plans they were offered.

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The White House last year ordered an administrative fix that, depending on the actions of individual states, allowed as many as 2.3 million people with “canceled plans” to simply stay on their old plans for at least another year. (In early March, the White House extended that deadline to 2016.) The administration in December also announced a new catastrophic exemption to fill any remaining gaps in coverage — estimated to affect as many as 500,000 people.

In other words, only in a narrow sense have “millions” lost their health insurance.


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[Skinner]

1. In other news: Water is wet. (nt)

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2. LOL! But seriously Skinner the Democrats raise lots of money on all things Koch. So the more

we talk about AFP and the Koch, the better. It is obvious to you and I, but it may not be to new DUers and such. The Koch brothers are the physical manifestation of the whole inequality issue. We should never let up of talking about the Kochs. Here is even more info:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/03/25/how-the-koch-brothers-are-dominating-the-senate-ad-race-in-one-chart/

Here is Paul Krugman on the issue of fundraising and the Koch name: "Things Go Better With Kochs"

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/25/things-go-better-with-kochs/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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David Weigel reports that Democrats are finding the Koch brothers an effective fundraising tool — emails that bash the Kochs raise three times as much as emails that don’t.

And you can see why: the Kochs are perfect villains. It’s not just what they are — serious evildoers who use their wealth to push hard-line right-wing, anti-environmental policies that redound very much to their own benefit. It’s also what they aren’t: they’re wealthy heirs, not self-made men, they aren’t identified with innovation (which you can at least argue for Bill Gates), they haven’t made money for other people like Warren Buffett. So focusing on the Kochs is a way to personalize a vision of conservative politics as a defense of people with unearned privilege.

And here’s the thing: that vision is basically right. Very few of the superrich are movie stars, even if the usual suspects love to pretend otherwise. Not many are innovators. A fair number are self-made wheeler-dealers, but a growing number probably were born to great wealth.

In effect, Koch-bashing is a way of making Piketty personal and concrete. It’s the real thing.



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