Posted on 04/13/2015 3:34:33 AM PDT by rootin tootin
If you are masochistic enough to read the “reporting” of the legacy media on Obamacare, you will have noticed a spate of recent stories with titles like the following from CNBC: “Health spending post-Obamacare seen $2.5 trillion lower.” This headline is not only awkwardly worded. It is, like the article over which it appears, misleading. It misrepresents a new study from the left-leaning Urban Institute concerning projected health care spending in a way that suggests the nation has saved enormous amounts of money thanks to the “Affordable Care Act.”
This is absurd, of course, but it highlights an underappreciated element of the health care reform debate—the adversarial relationship that exists between Obamacare’s partisans in the press and basic statistics. This running gun battle between math and the media manifests itself in two ways, depending on the limitations of individual journalists: Most just can’t handle the numbers, and are thus easily taken in by specious studies and grifters like Jonathan Gruber. A far smaller group can manage the math but must ignore its implications in order to support “reform.”
A prominent member of the former cohort is Jonathan Cohn, who writes that the Urban Institute study is “one more reason” to feel good about PPACA ...
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
As we approach the anniversary of Goebbels’ death, it seems his nazi-style propaganda is still alive and well.
Ezekiel Emanuel told the truth— you really ought to die at 75. Not the elites of course, but that will bring spending down nicely and it is the one way Obamacare can work.
“As we approach the anniversary of Goebbel’s death, it seems his nazi-style propaganda is still alive and well.”
Not to mention the Pravda-like meanderings of all those psychotic, adolescent, junior-high-school, Che Guevara wannabes in the American media.
IMHO
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Hey, what gibberish is that? I can’t read it. Is it secret code?
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