John Hayward?is a Conservative writer and regular contributor to Breitbart.com and Redstate.com.? Earlier this week, Mr. Hayward claimed that Consumer Reports was advising people to:
stay away from Barack Obama’s billion-dollar disaster for month or longer.
Of course, Hayward did not bother to actually quote any such language coming from Consumer Reports.? If Consumer?Reports had actually said that, why didn’t Hayward directly quote the language?? Because Consumer Reports has not said that. ??Monday, Consumer Reports?making that claim regarding the glitches with the rollout responded to these Right Wing pundits and media outlets dedicated to opposing the ACA, also known as Obamacare, of the Healthcare.gov site:
Not True.
ConsumerReports.org went on to say:
The best place to buy coverage on your own is through the Health Insurance Marketplace in your state. That guarantees you will get comprehensive coverage, and it’s the only way you can lower the cost of your premiums and possibly even your deductibles and copayments.
27 states, all GOP controlled red sates, flat out refused to participate and set up their own Healthcare Exchanges, which has required the federal government to set up those exchanges for them.? This is because the governors of those red states have bought into and have been participating in the GOP plan to defeat Obamacare and to label it as a failure years before it ever got the chance to be fully up and running.? Despite those efforts to repeal, defund, replace (with nothing), or to otherwise defeat Obamacare, the well- respected and trusted Consumer Reports is still recommending Healthcare.gov as the best place for consumers in those states to go, for the most comprehensive and cost effective medical insurance available today.
Seven of the GOP controlled red states have partially seen the light, by allowing the federal government to set up the exchange system with those states, then taking over management of the system. This allows certain GOP Governors to reap political benefits by straddling both sides of the fence. Their constituents get the benefits of the exchanges while the Governors are still able to blame the Obama Administration for any and all problems associated with the new exchanges.
Many red states have gone well beyond refusing to fully participate with setting up and managing the exchanges.? Some have refused to accept federal money for this purpose.? Others, despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that the ACA is Constitutional, have filed legal challenges to the ACA? which, if successful, would make it very difficult for the exchange to operate in those states.
The fight at the State level against the implementation of Obamacare has been compared to the massive resistance “by some politicians in the South to prevent black children from attending school with white students after the Supreme Court’s landmark desegregation ruling” ?in the 1955 ?case, Brown vs. Board of Education.
House Republicans are about to hold hearings on the failures of the Healthcare.gov website. Health And Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, will be called to testify next week. They also turned to John McAfee, creator of the antiquated McAfee virus software, who left the United States to pursue a life of addiction and debauchery in Belize, as their website expert.?Given McAfee’s troubled and somewhat colorful past, perhaps House Republicans will be reconsidering and go look for a different expert for public testimony.
The ACA haters have tried to scuttle the most crucial part of the system through fear and false claims designed to persuade young people, who are being counted upon to sign up in significant numbers, who are needed to lower the cost of healthcare insurance for everyone.? Young people are told:
Don’t let the Government play doctor. Opt out.
Insurance costs will be lower for everyone when risks are spread out among the widest group of people.? The inclusion of millions of previously uninsured young and healthy people, along with many more millions of previously uninsured people who will now be able to afford insurance, the cost for everyone will be dramatically lower.? This is how insurance works best.
Republicans have changed the narrative on their propaganda. What was once a firm stance to do everything possible to make the evil known as Obamacare just go away before it ever got a chance to start, has now become because it is too hard to sign up for a plan don’t bother trying. Whatever happened to the Republican mantra that we Americans are a can do people who will succeed no matter what obstacles are put in our way?
Here is an idea I’d like to throw out to the GOP.? Stop erecting the obstacles that are making the Healthcare.gov exchanges, which Consumer Reports says is still the best place to go for the most comprehensive and cost effective medical insurance on the market today, hard to navigate.? Stop the media stunts by folks who aren’t trying to get into the system because they are actually in need of a new medical insurance policy.? Those folks are either trying to prove a false narrative that they will believe, no matter the facts.? Or they are trying to continue to gum up the works.
Edited/Published by: SB
