Over on Salon.com there is a brutal takedown of Sean Hannity and his Obamacare lies "Inside the Fox News lie machine: I fact-checked Sean Hannity on Obamacare"
quick summary - Hannity put 3 couples on TV to tell their ACA "horror stories" and not one was true.
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http://www.salon.com/...
I have to say I have been worried about some of the doomsday predictions for ACA coming true. Its not hard to imagine doctors offices being overrun with new patients and having to say "no more." Hannity played right into those fears:
As Hannity called on each of them, the guests recounted their “Obamacare” horror stories: canceled policies, premium hikes, restrictions on the freedom to see a doctor of their choice, financial burdens upon their small businesses and so on.
“These are the stories that the media refuses to cover,” Hannity interjected.
Each couple told their story and then the author, Eric Stern, decided to follow up with them.
First I spoke with Paul Cox of Leicester, N.C. He and his wife Michelle had lamented to Hannity that because of Obamacare, they can’t grow their construction business and they have kept their employees below a certain number of hours, so that they are part-timers.
Obamacare has no effect on businesses with 49 employees or less. But in our brief conversation on the phone, Paul revealed that he has only four employees. Why the cutback on his workforce? “Well,” he said, “I haven’t been forced to do so, it’s just that I’ve chosen to do so. I have to deal with increased costs.” What costs? And how, I asked him, is any of it due to Obamacare? There was a long pause, after which he said he’d call me back. He never did.
Truthiness at its best. "Well if I hired 45 more people I would be stuck........" We are not talking about some minor fact that a producer could miss. This is not finding our that they really were smokers despite saying they werent. There is no way someone didnt ask "how big is your business?" But maybe that was an outlier......
I asked Allison if she’d shopped on the exchange, to see what a plan might cost under the new law. She said she hadn’t done so because she’d heard the website was not working. Would she try it out when it’s up and running? Perhaps, she said. She told me she has long opposed Obamacare, and that the president should have focused on tort reform as a solution to bringing down the price of healthcare.
I tried an experiment and shopped on the exchange for Allison and Kurt. Assuming they don’t smoke and have a household income too high to be eligible for subsidies, I found that they would be able to get a plan for around $7,600, which would include coverage for their uninsured daughter. This would be about a 60 percent reduction from what they would have to pay on the pre-Obamacare market.
Wow. Just wow. So you are so opposed to the IDEA of saving money that you wont even find out if you can get a $13000 pay raise?
Please read the entire story for the rest but the third was more of the same. Had not even TRIED to see if the ACA would save them money.
In some ways I am sad for those on the Right who watch this junk and deny themselves the opportunity to save money. On the other hand thats $13000 they cant give to some TeaPublican campaign or spend at WalMart, PapaJohns or some other nut job approved company. And because the lies on the show are so clear, it lets me know that Fox cant pretend they were misinformed or mislead. They lied and they know they lied. Even better, they know they HAVE to lie because the truth is just too painful.