{"id":11605,"date":"2014-03-04T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T21:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11605"},"modified":"2014-03-07T23:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T07:43:16","slug":"jesuscare-being-pushed-by-fox-news-as-an-alternative-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11605","title":{"rendered":"JesusCare Being Pushed By Fox News As An Alternative To ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) has been accelerating every month since the mangled launch of the Internet health insurance exchanges. Despite the early difficulties, nearly four million people have acquired insurance that is comprehensive and inexpensive. Millions more are now covered by Medicaid or policies purchased by their parents. Americans overall have indicated in most polls that they prefer keeping ObamaCare in place and fixing any problems, rather than repealing it.<\/p>\n<p>Those facts are the incentive for Fox News to redouble their efforts to sabotage the new law by proposing irresponsible alternatives that virtually guarantee to cause suffering, both physically and financially. On New Year&#8217;s Eve Fox News offered up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11161\" target=\"_blank\">eight alternatives to ObamaCare<\/a> that failed utterly in providing the protection that is expected of an insurance plan. And now Fox is following up with what may be the most absurd suggestion on the list.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-jesuscare.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News JesusCare\" width=\"500\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Fox &#038; Friends First, and later on America&#8217;s Newsroom, the anti-health network ran stories about what they called a Christian alternative to ObamaCare. But what they were peddling is just a medical expense sharing collective that has numerous deficiencies such as no coverage for preexisting conditions, no coverage for routine medical services like annual physical exams, no coverage for <em>&#8220;products of un-Biblical lifestyles,&#8221;<\/em> such as contraception or substance rehab, or some preventive medicine, including colonoscopies and mammograms.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, in order to participate the applicant must pledge their Christian faith and promise not to drink, take drugs or have sex outside of a traditional marriage. And perhaps most worrisome is the fact that, because these organizations are not insurance companies, they are not legally obligated to reimburse anyone for anything and there is no regulatory oversight that protects the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>JesusCare is about as effective a replacement for ObamaCare as faith healing. It may pay for a flu shot, but if you need an appendectomy or are diagnosed with diabetes, you are either going to have to go without care or descend into a financial abyss. Either way, you and your family will suffer unnecessarily.<\/p>\n<p><center>Shameless Self-Promotion:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/UPoI6a\" target=\"_blank\">Get the News Corpse ebook Fox Nation vs. Reality today at Amazon.<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For Fox News to continue to do stories promoting this sort of fringe enterprise is downright dangerous. And the only reason they persist is because they are so fixated on doing harm to ObamaCare by attempting to constrain participation. Like the Republican Party, who early on declared that they hope President Obama fails, Fox News wants ObamaCare to fail. And they don&#8217;t seem to mind that the people who will be hurt are Americans who were gullible enough to take their bad advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enrollment in the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) has been accelerating every month since the mangled launch of the Internet health insurance exchanges. Despite the early difficulties, nearly four million people have acquired insurance that is comprehensive and inexpensive. Millions more are now covered by Medicaid or policies purchased by their parents. Americans overall have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"JesusCare Being Pushed By Fox News As An Alternative To ObamaCare","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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,1066],"class_list":["post-11605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-fox-news","tag-obamacare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-jesuscare.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-31b","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28704,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=28704","url_meta":{"origin":11605,"position":0},"title":"Breitbart&#8217;s Asinine Advice To Wreck ObamaCare: Don&#8217;t Buy Health Insurance","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/8\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There are times when one encounters political punditry that makes you genuinely question the mental health of the alleged pundit. 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