Fact check: Trump misleads with latest Obamacare claim

NBC News ^ | 12/17/18 | Jane C. Timm

[Skepolitic]

President Donald Trump said on Monday that sky-high Obamacare deductibles ensure that the insurance plans are "practically not even useable" for those who have them, a claim health care experts said is a misleading one because it ignores a core tenet of the law.

[Skepolitic]

FAKE NEWS disguised as fact checking.

Working families with modest, but self-sufficient, income cannot afford ObamaCare policies' deductibles. That's because they're already broke after paying the ObamaCare premium.

Here's a realworld case Insured married couple, 64 and 62. Annual ObamaCare premium without subsidy: $21,036/year. Deductible: $6800/individual; $13600/couple.

Wife and I have joint income of about $75000/year. After subtracting $21,036 for ObamaCare, don't tell me that $6800/individual is affordable.

ObamaCare p1sses on my leg and NBC [Fake] News tells me it's raining.

The problem is that half the country believes this Fake News "fact checking" is authoritative.

[kiryandil]

10-1 odds that Jane Timm soiled herself on Twitter on November 8, 2016.

[kiryandil]

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[tje]

The only people who laud Obamacare are people who are not on it.

It is atrocious on several levels. My wife and I have been on it and last year committed the horrible crime of making too much money.

[dhs12345]

Agreed. WTF!!!

[Da Coyote]

Never Been Correct news is fact checking the Trumpster?
Heh.

[dhs12345]

Or who are on it and getting it free.

[Freee-dame]

The article uses the word “likely” over and over in addition to other qualifiers. Fake news!

[9YearLurker]

Obamacare absolutely made deductibles unaffordable—and moreso for those poor schleps getting inaurance on their own than those getting subsidies on the “exchange”.

[Steamburg]

In a sane world, the press would loose all civil immunity and get to be sued for their editorials disguised as news just like the citizens.

[buckalfa]

"Wife and I have joint income of about $75000/year. After subtracting $21,036 for ObamaCare, don't tell me that $6800/individual is affordable."

Well at $75K a year you should be happy to subsidize the cost of health insurance for those less fortunate than you are. My God, after all it is for the women and children! (/EXTREME SARCASM !!!)

[Jim W N]

Fact check: NBC are LIARS!!!

[precisionshootist]

It’s only affordable if you are one of the ones that aren’t paying for it.

[Fightin Whitey]

Obamacare is all about forking the middle-class and handing the proceeds to the poor, the lazy, the dissolute (those three are NOT one and the same).

[FlipWilson]

WOW!! Just in time for Christmas we have a new super duper invincibility tool. If you want to make any incredibly outrageous claim credible, just put “Fact Check” in front of it.

Fact Check, I am worth 30 Billion dollars!!

Whopeeeeeee!!!

[griswold3]

Self Employed Took December off so i would not commit the same sin. Must stay under the threshold or pay $2000/mo.

$5000 deductible and have never met it. But Providers will not see you without ‘insurance’

[dhs12345]

And how dare he complain. He should be happy to do his part to help the less fortunate. While he quickly becomes one of the “less fortunate” and Obamacare drives him and his family into poverty. And while the Democrats pat themselves on the back for a job well done.

[abclily]

NBC News and Fact Check together? I don’t think so! NBC News and Manufacturing Lies more like it.

[dhs12345]

I wish that I could post on the website. Idiots!

[griswold3]

"Wife and I have joint income of about $75000/year" Obama's income redistribution plan says from each according to their ability ($75000 says you're 'able' to Progressives) to each according to their need.