Eric Stern of Salon did some fact-checking on Sean Hannity and caught him presenting "fake evidence . . . to exploit people’s ignorance and falsely point to imaginary boogeymen."
On his show, Hannity presented the "horror stories" of three guests who claim to have been harmed by Obamacare. Stern did his own interviewing of the three and found a very different story.
One couple claimed that their construction business had been forced to cut employee hours
to meet Obamacare demands for health insurance. Stern found, instead,
that they have only four employees (Obamacare only requires businesses
with more than 50 employees to offer health insurance). When
confronted, they owned up to the truth; they had not been forced cut
hours; they had simply chosen to and blamed it on Obamacare.
Two other couples claimed that the insurance exchange rates were far more than they had been paying for insurance. Stern did his own checking and found that this was simply not true based on their circumstances.
Stern concluds: this was all part of the "Fox News lie machine."
Ralph
PS: The first stats are in: thus far 467,000 have applied for insurance under Obamacare in the first two weeks
-- and despite all the computer problems. That should take a little
glee our of the Republican's mantra that it is a disaster that people
don't want.
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