Homegirl’s on a roll!
Last night, NBC’s Lisa Myers and Hannah Rappleye reported that the Obama administration had known all along that millions of Americans would lose their current coverage. But according to Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall, reports of Obamacares failures have been greatly exaggerated:
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone bend over quite so far backwards to mislead people about what’s contained in a story. But it is Lisa Myers. So I guess we shouldn’t be surprised? We were just discussing this amongst our ed staff: it’s true that the White House did oversell how little change there would be in the individual insurance market. But saying that millions of people are getting ‘cancellation notices’ or ‘losing their coverage’ is deeply misleading.
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An accurate way to portray what’s happening might go like this: Millions of people are finding out that they’re being rolled over into new policies that provide fuller coverage. But some may end up paying more, even after the subsidies that the law provides.
WH superflack Tara McGuinness, who also answers to “Julia,” endorses Marshall’s assessment:
"saying that millions. .are getting 'cancellation notices' / 'losing their coverage' is deeply misleading." More here http://t.co/OtEMkq0jQX
— T. McGuinness (NARA) (@Tara44) October 29, 2013
Ridiculous.
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/395213007921623041
She has absolutely no shame.
@HealthCareTara oh Tara, you're such a liar.
— Cory (@corrosion1) October 29, 2013
,@WhiteHouse @HealthCareTara FACT: That's a complete lie and you know it.
— Incidental Chatter (@Klaatu2017) October 29, 2013
Of course she knows it. She just doesn’t care.
They still think we're stupid. RT @HealthCareTara: "saying that millions. .are getting 'cancellation notices' is deeply misleading."…
— Tom (@BoreGuru) October 29, 2013
.@HealthCareTara We understand that you wish he only said you can keep "insurance", but he didn't, he said "you can keep your plan."
— Tom (@BoreGuru) October 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/lesgovmorfre/status/395212857031131137
Exactly. But reality is hard for shills like Tara.
Or scary truthful MT @HealthCareTara saying that millions. .are getting 'cancellation notices' 'losing their coverage' deeply misleading
— Let's all calm down (@NikVanHelsing) October 29, 2013
And she’ll never admit she’s full of it. Instead, she’ll just stick to passing off fiction as ‘FACT,’ Valerie Jarrett-style:
FACT: Half of uninsured, single young adults between 18 and 35 can #GetCovered for $50/month or less. #Obamacare, pic.twitter.com/sjqHyPpqhL
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) October 29, 2013
Just pathetic.
One tweeter does manage to find some unintentional truth in Tara’s lie:
@HealthCareTara You are correct Tara, there will be many more coming
— NavyTim (@ChiefNavyTim) October 29, 2013
Good point. Here they come now!
Ouch, @healthcaretara – MT @CBSThisMorning: More than 2M Americans losing healthcare coverage because of #Obamacare http://t.co/1y4N9UkAbS
— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) October 29, 2013
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