Posted on 11/27/2013 9:57:38 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Bit by bit, the media narrative around the travails of Obamacare and its main enrollment vehicle, HealthCare.gov, is starting to look up. Or to put it more precisely, it is no longer so crushingly negative. After weeks of stories about website crashes and canceled health plans – and an extraordinary mea culpa from President Obama – a competing story line is starting to emerge. Slowly but surely, people are navigating the exchanges and getting insurance – for some, cheaper and better than what they had. Last week, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times touted a “surge” in enrollment figures, especially in states that have their own exchanges.
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Wait ‘till the end of the month, when the web site still sucks.
So the media has gone positive. A few weeks ago the white house met with media types. Nothing was ever published about the meeting, but we know what it was about. They were told to sing the praises of obamacare or else.
“I’m sorry” to the 8 million who have lost insurance [SO FAR!!! we know 80 million more] and they think “Ok, OK then - he said he was sorry”
Media whores.
I wonder if the Soviet-Era propagandists were as gleefully willing to be led down the path to communism?
(at least until they began to be TOLD what to write)
We are the Soviet Union, in every sense of the word.
They will push out positive stories and block anything negative. The only think you will be allowed to know is that everything is running great.
It should be illegal for the Whitehouse to skew the news this way. It’s bad enough without their encouragement.
Folks, we knew this was coming. They're getting desperate and next year is an election year. And it's going to get worse from now and Nov 2014
Obamacare and insurance cancellations/doctor switches are pocketbook issues. No amount of media spin will undo the damage. Check the RCP average for Marxist approval: still sinking. Two new polls (Reuters and The Economist) today have him sub-40 in approval: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html
I must work hard suppressing the vomit reflex.
I see news reports trying to put a happy face on ObamaCare and I get amused. Who didn't see that coming.
In “Atlas Shrugged,” the gov. and media tried to convince the public that trying economic times were actually a positive.
So the Mainstream Marxist Media is going to try to apply more lipstick to this pig. Good luck with that.
Pray America Wakes Up
I would like to hear some of the “cheaper and better” stories, especially after people find out what they really have. The insurance companies didn’t get into this fascist fiasco to sell “cheaper and better.” The only cheaper I know of is called Medicaid, and that isn’t cheaper for the taxpayers. Someone somewhere is getting burned.
When will the 5 million man march on Washington take place to protest this socialist gang rape of our American Way of Life???
Media whores
The MSM would run positive stories about killing three years olds if it would push their cause...
All the positive news about Obamacare will be written months in advance.
It's all as made up as the story about the “knock knock” thugs being phony.
No amount of propaganda will take away the pain of stroking an $800.00 check every month to one of these fascist insurance companies in bed with FedGov™. Oh did I mention the $5000.00 deductible when little Timmy hurts his wittle self and needs an x-ray and a cast..
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