Well, here's some clear-eyed objective journalism. The AP is running a story with the title Fact Check: Premiums would rise under Obama plan
It goes on to report that what Obama says is "misleading" when you look at the fine print of the draft legislation. Obviously the article's title is not misleading, no Siree.
The article states:
WASHINGTON – Buyers, beware: President Barack Obama says his health care overhaul will lower premiums by double digits, but check the fine print.
Premiums are likely to keep going up even if the health care bill passes, experts say. If cost controls work as advertised, annual increases would level off with time. But don't look for a rollback. Instead, the main reason premiums would be more affordable is that new government tax credits would help cover the cost for millions of people.
Listening to Obama pitch his plan, you might not realize that's how it works.
As we head into the final, final stretch of HCR reform, the opposition will be pulling all the stops to stop this from happening. AP's style of reporting on these matters is nothing new, but this is a pretty misleading title if I ever saw one: anyone briefly glancing headlines without reading further will simply see "premiums to rise" and not "affordability of premiums to go up", but I guess that's what the AP wants.
I know that this is not much of a diary, but it shows how close we are now, and that nothing may be allowed to derail reform efforts.