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Lazy Obamacare Reporting at Politico

Politico’s Jennifer Haberkorn’s May 26th article, Dems support Medicare brochure, article leaves out some key details about the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service (CMS) produced four-page brochure. For starters she leaves out the fact that taxpayers are fooring the $18 million bill for producing and mailing the propaganda.

But more importantly she does not even try to identify or fact check any of the claims in the brochure. For example, the White House directed brochure says Obamacare will “provide you and your family greater savings and increased quality health care.” But the CMS’s own report on ObamacareContinue Reading

Mandates Don’t Benefit Mandated

In her October 18th article entitled “Health bills target young-old cost gap”, Washington Times reporter Jennifer Haberkorn suggests that young adults “could have the highest costs to bear but the most to gain under the health care overhaul proposals in Congress.”

Beyond the questionable logic of suggesting that something purchased at a high (indeed “the highest”) price results in “a gain”, Ms. Haberkorn’s implication that reform proposals would benefit young adults in any important way fails to match the reality of either the leading House or Senate bill.

It is true that young adults have the highest rate of being uninsured … Continue Reading