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<\/p>\nFor some reason, Fox News has made an editorial decision to segregate their most idiotic hosts to the morning hours on the network on programs like Fox & Friends. It’s where you will find Steve Doocy, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Brian Kilmeade, Anna Kooiman, and today’s special, Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n
In a segment that was undoubtedly designed to malign the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare), Carlson invited a healthcare consumer on to frighten us all with his tale of an insurance catastrophe that resulted in – well, it resulted in no harm whatsoever, but never mind that. There is a horror story to tell.<\/p>\n
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Click here to SHARE this On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n The segment (video below) began with ominous music accompanying a graphic with a foreboding theme: “Eyes On ObamaCare.”<\/em> Cut to Carlson’s opening wherein he somberly warned that…<\/p>\n “Not only can you not keep your doctor, but you can’t keep your coverage either. Through a glitch in one of the official ObamaCare exchanges over 3,600 people in the state of Colorado saw their health insurances policies canceled without notice. Kafka comes to Colorado.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Kafka , for those unfamiliar, was known for writing somewhat depressing novels with characters who were pummeled by heartless bureaucracies. You know, like the ones that make healthcare available to everyone. Yeah, what a nightmare it must be to be able to see a doctor when you need one. But what Carlson seemed to cavalierly skip over is the fact that the problem in the story he is introducing was caused by a glitch, not a government mandated assault on its citizens.<\/p>\n Carlson jumped into the interview by falsely asserting that his guest\/victim, Steven Roussel, had suffered a rise in his insurance premium “thanks to ObamaCare.”<\/em> Of course, there was no evidence that ObamaCare had anything to do with the higher premium which, in fact, are controlled by the private insurance companies, except for the limits that ObamaCare imposes on increases. Furthermore, Roussel himself never said that ObamaCare was responsible for the increase.<\/p>\n While browsing the exchange website and talking to a representative on the phone, Roussel’s policy was mistakenly canceled. As note above, this was not some Kafkaesque bureaucracy imposing it’s evil will on a defenseless peon. It was a computer error, a malfunction, a glitch, that was probably the work of Satan. So Carlson delved deeper into the mystery asking…<\/p>\n “Can you just give us a little background here? Were you happy or dissatisfied with your healthcare before Obamacare?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Whereupon Roussel delivered a truly nightmarish response – if you’re Fox News:<\/p>\n “Well, I didn\u2019t have any healthcare before the Affordable Healthcare Act went in. And it was because of that, that I was actually able to afford it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n About this time there was an associate producer at Fox that was sweating and attempting to slither out a back door. Heads will surely roll for not having vetted this socialist subversive guest thoroughly before allowing him to get on the air and praise ObamaCare for creating an opportunity to get health insurance. But it gets even worse. When given a direct opportunity to disparage ObamaCare and its namesake, Roussel committed a Foxian blasphemy:<\/p>\n Carlson:<\/strong> How has this made you feel about the whole ObamaCare experiment? So there you have it. Blame was placed exactly where it belonged. The insurance company was responsible for the rate increase, and combined with the operators of the exchange, permitted a glitchy website to go online that inadvertently canceled some policies.<\/p>\n Carlson responded sarcastically saying that “Well, I betcha he’ll get right on it after this.”<\/em> Which actually turned out to be true (Tucker got lucky). The exchange is contacting every affected consumer and assuring them that their policies will be reinstated retroactive to January 1, and they will have the opportunity to select any other plan should they decide to switch.<\/p>\n So in the end, this was nothing but a programming mishap that was quickly resolved without anyone suffering any negative repercussions. Which makes it an obvious target for Fox News to invent a controversy where none existed, and to frighten their viewers with false stories of a government gone wild. At some point Fox’s viewers are going to realize that the network was created by the pharmaceutical industry to sell more anti-depressants.<\/p>\n News Corpse Presents: The ALL NEW 2nd volume of
\nRoussell:<\/strong> Well, experiments are either a success or fail, and this instance it’s a little bit of a fail. But it’s not necessarily the President’s fault. It\u2019s more the CEO\u2019s fault that knew about the glitch in the system and did nothing about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
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