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CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Millions of Americans Losing Insurance a ‘Red Herring’
Truth Revolt ^
| 11/13/2013
| Bradford Thomas
Posted on 11/13/2013 3:14:14 AM PST by markomalley
CNNs chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, thinks that millions of Americans losing their health insurance due to Obamacare regulations is a little bit of a red herring, and, besides, were only talking about a small portion of the population.
In other news, 1 million Californians have received cancelation notices for the very plans the Obama administration promised, again and again, they could keep...
Tuesday on Piers Morgan Live, Gupta attempted to deflect the in-deflectable criticism of Obamas bold-faced keep your plan lie and worse-than-third-world rollout of his signature achievement. After portraying the administrations deliberate deceptions as merely a messaging problem, the best defense Gupta could muster was the increasingly more insulting argument that the cancelations only affect a sliver of Americans.
Apparently Gupta hasnt been keeping up with the headlines. Heres the exchange:
Morgan: Sanjay, we know the take-up on Obamacare has been extremely low. The White House has now conceded that when the numbers are published, they will be very low. We now have President Clinton really directly challenging President Obama to, if it means changing the law, to change the law to keep his word about if you wanted to keep your plan or doctor, you could. This is turning into a huge mess, isn't it?
Gupta: Yeah, I think there is no two ways about that. You know, I think with regard to this idea of keeping the plans... this is another example of the message really having been not properly, uh, given. And, you know, we talked about the specific thing that if you have your insurance, you can keep it. As you know, and as President Clinton said, that's not true. But Piers, you and I talked about this before after I interviewed Secretary Sebelius. The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is medical bills, and a large part of that is because there are really bad plans out there. I think this is a little bit of a red herring. And if you look at the numbers, this is a relatively small portion of the population that were talking aboutthat fits into this idea that they have plans and want to keep them because they are buying insurance already on the individual market.
Gupta then shifted gears to the laughable Pinto-Ferrari analogy, ultimately dismissing the millions of plans Americans had chosen on the free market which are being canceled by Obamacare as simply not good plans.
Morgan then turned to his other guest, Dr. Eric Topol, and asked the question at the heart of Guptas clunker of a defense:
Morgan: Do you feel... that Obamacare is well-intended...?
To Dr. Topols credit, he quickly moved beyond Morgans irrelevant question and touched on the ACAs failure to take advantage of medical innovation. But Morgans question provides a key insight into liberal ideology: The only thing that matters to the shallow Left is the good intentions of their elected leaders, no matter how destructive and tyrannical the results of their policies.
TOPICS: Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: abortion; aca; deathpanels; fraud; healthcare; kentucky; lundergangrimes; mattbevin; mitchmcconnell; obamacare; sanjaygupta; zerocare
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To: PghBaldy
21
posted on
11/13/2013 5:00:29 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: BlessedBeGod
Merely 129 million eggs that have to broken for Obama’s socialist utopia.
22
posted on
11/13/2013 5:01:08 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(Everyone get online for Obamacare on 10/1. Overload the system and crash it hard!)
To: Venturer
He was considered for a post in the Obama administration, and turned it down because he would have to take a pay cut.
23
posted on
11/13/2013 5:10:31 AM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: markomalley
This is disappointing. Sanjay Gupta apparently is a political idiot. But, I will give him respect for the medical role that he played during OIF. While reporting from Iraq, he volunteered to be a doctor at a Medical unit. He performed dozens of operations on troops injured in battle.
I hope that he gets his head out of his rectum one day when it comes to politics.
24
posted on
11/13/2013 5:13:01 AM PST
by
3Fingas
(Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededicaton to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
To: markomalley
Gupta IS a tool. A useful one. He’s telegenic, “ethnic,” and “easy” to understand. My husband’s cardiologist office plays a closed circuit TV “health” broadcast (sponsored by cardio drug manufacturers) and Gupta is one of the hosts. He give indepth segments like “eat fruits and vegetables.”
What a microcosm of what passes for “knowledge” today. You (cardiac patient) are too STOOPID to learn actual medical terminology, to be schooled in the drugs they are being prescribed for you to use. Instead, sit here and listen to the nice foreign guy tell you to eat broccoli.
Everything, I am convinced, is low information.
25
posted on
11/13/2013 5:15:38 AM PST
by
PennsylvaniaMom
( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
To: PghBaldy
I say throw their talking point right back at them!
when they say “The number one cause of bankruptcy in the United States is medical bills”
you simply reply... well... that may be true... but according to YOU. It only affects a small percentage of Americans, so we shouldn’t care!
26
posted on
11/13/2013 5:17:59 AM PST
by
TexasFreeper2009
(Obama lied .. the economy died.)
To: markomalley
Sanjay Gupta has always sounded like a snake oil salesman to me, so I'm not surprised he'd compromise himself to become the Official White House Shill.
27
posted on
11/13/2013 5:20:23 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: markomalley
This sounds very similar to Billlly Clintoooooon's approach on GANG VIOLENCE = JUST TALK ABOUT IT! PROBLEM SOLVED.
To: Cowboy Bob
Is Chris Mathews still peeing on himself when he hears the word Obamacare?
29
posted on
11/13/2013 5:28:54 AM PST
by
2nd Amendment
(Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
To: markomalley
Sanjay Gupta is repeating the talking points nearly verbatim. The supposedly "bad plans" are better than the new plans.
The "bad" old plans let you see out of network specialists when you get really sick. The new Obamacare plans don't.
The "bad" old plans had high deductibles, like $3,000. The new Obamacare plans have deductibles of $5,000 or $10,000 or $12,000.
The "bad" old plans were expensive, like $1000 for a family of four. The new Obamacare plans for the same family with no coverage for out of network hospitals and doctors costs $1340 per month.
And without out of network coverage bankruptcy will be a much more common situation for families who have someone who is really sick.
To: PghBaldy
You can tell its truth value by considering the ideological slant of those who repeat it endlessly on talk shows. The real number one cause of bankruptcy is poor financial management and bad judgment.
To: PghBaldy
It’s the old snake oil salesman’s play on the “fear of loss” being the primary motivator to convince the rubes to buy.
32
posted on
11/13/2013 5:58:01 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: mikeandike
One thing that needs to be shouted from the rooftops:
The people that Obamacare is hurting
are exactly the people that
OBAMA WANTS TO HURT.
People who provide for themselves.
33
posted on
11/13/2013 5:58:54 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Navy Patriot
I posted 32 before I read your post.
Snake oil salesman tactics... indeed.
34
posted on
11/13/2013 6:00:06 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: markomalley
Sanjay doesn’t seem to have a problem with serfdom.
what an idiot
Do they still not get it?
Or are they in on it?
To: markomalley
nothingnew says nothingnew here.
FMCDH(BITS)
37
posted on
11/13/2013 6:42:21 AM PST
by
nothingnew
(I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
To: freeandfreezing
The supposedly "bad plans" are better than the new plans. It seems that with the new plans, people can't afford to get sick, not with the high deductibles. I suppose if they want some BC pills, they can get those.
38
posted on
11/13/2013 7:14:12 AM PST
by
Lou L
(Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
To: markomalley
Y’know, through my employer, Aetna healthcare, along with vision, dental, some basic term life, and long term disability, cost me about $920 a month - for my ENTIRE FAMILY.
Thank goodness I get to keep it (so far...).
I am pretty sure I’d be paying more for just myself.
A BIG, BIG, thanks to my employer!
39
posted on
11/13/2013 7:34:27 AM PST
by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: Cowboy Bob
Where do these fools come from? He's not a Cleveland Indian, but he is a Michigan Indian.
Mom and Dad were engineers at Ford.
40
posted on
11/13/2013 7:38:44 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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