{"id":10838,"date":"2013-11-05T14:52:53","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10838"},"modified":"2013-11-06T01:26:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T09:26:18","slug":"red-state-revenge-fox-news-floats-new-obamacare-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10838","title":{"rendered":"Red State Revenge: Fox News Floats New ObamaCare Conspiracy Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

As previously reported here at News Corpse, the anti-ObamaCare zealots have deployed numerous attacks<\/a> on the Affordable Care Act that are based on disinformation and deceit. Their offensive is still in full force as demonstrated by Fox News today.<\/p>\n

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The latest phony issue to emerge on Fox News is the false allegation that the Obama administration is deliberately punishing red states that didn’t vote for him with higher premiums for health insurance. The article<\/a> published on the Fox News website says that higher premiums are…<\/p>\n

“…more likely if you live in a ‘red state’ that didn’t vote for Obama, according to price data compiled by the Heritage Foundation. In red states, premiums for 27-year-olds rose an average of 78% on ObamaCare exchanges, whereas in ‘blue states’ that voted for Obama, premiums rose a smaller 50%.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Setting aside the fact that the Heritage Foundation is a disreputable right-wing think tank run by former GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, a fiercely biased opponent of ObamaCare, the data imparted in their “study”<\/em> is far from accurate. What’s more, Fox gets support for their story from Avik Roy, a senior fellow at the rightist Manhattan Institute, which is funded by the Koch brothers.<\/p>\n

The main problem with the numbers presented by Fox is that they do not include adjustments by the subsidies that are available to most insurance consumers purchasing plans through the ACA exchange. Roy dismisses that fact by saying that the subsidies will still cost the federal government money, but that doesn’t address the question at hand. Consumers will still be paying less, and those who live in red states will not be subject to any partisan penalty.<\/p>\n

The other area that may affect the average prices paid by residents of specific states is the availability of expanded Medicaid service for low income residents. It’s true that these citizens will either have to pay more or go without insurance, but that isn’t the result of any retribution by the President. In fact, it is quite the opposite. All states can choose to expand their Medicaid programs to cover these people and be reimbursed by the federal government for the cost. Governors in blue states are doing just that. However, the republican governors of many red states have declined to take advantage of that benefit. So it is the GOP governors and legislatures who are depriving their residents of affordable coverage and inflating their state’s average costs.<\/p>\n

By accusing Obama of orchestrating some sort of revenge against the residents of states that didn’t vote for him, Fox News is again advancing a dishonest argument in the hopes of doing harm to the public perception of ObamaCare, and to the reputation of Obama. There is absolutely no truth to the allegation that Obama has sought to punish residents of red states, and the ACA does no such thing. The American people see right through this cynical scheme as evidenced in a recent poll<\/a> that shows that more people want ObamaCare to be expanded or remain as is, than want it to be repealed and\/or replaced.<\/p>\n

All of this leads back to a simple question asked in these pages before: If ObamaCare is as bad as they say it is, why do they have to keep lying<\/a> about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As previously reported here at News Corpse, the anti-ObamaCare zealots have deployed numerous attacks on the Affordable Care Act that are based on disinformation and deceit. Their offensive is still in full force as demonstrated by Fox News today. The latest phony issue to emerge on Fox News is the false allegation that the Obama […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Red State Revenge: Fox News Floats New ObamaCare Conspiracy Theory","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,361],"tags":[33,1066,301],"class_list":["post-10838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","tag-fox-news","tag-obamacare","tag-republicans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2OO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8956,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8956","url_meta":{"origin":10838,"position":0},"title":"So F**king What? 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