CBS News’ Misleading Obamacare Report: Woman’s Plan Paid $50 Per Service, Doesn’t Cover Hospital

[JaneyVee]

Not content with a website that performs like a Yugo with sugar in its gas tank, the mainstream media has continued to broadcast misleading, deliberately incomplete, and one-sided reports on the effects of the Affordable Care Act on consumers. The latest champion of the form is CBS News’ Jan Crawford, whose report on 56 year-old Dianne Barrett of Florida has become a North Star for those seeking to undercut the health care law by claiming that her premium increased tenfold under Obamacare, without disclosing that what Ms. Barrett was paying $54 a month for barely qualifies as insurance.

On CBS This Morning, Crawford reported that 56-year-old Dianne Barrett received a letter last month “from Blue Cross Blue Shield, informing her that as of January 2014, she would lose her current plan. She pays $54 a month. The new plan she’s being offered would run $591 a month, ten times more than what she currently pays.”

“What I have right now is what I’m happy with,” Barrett says in the report, “and I just want to know why I can’t keep what I have. Why do I have to be forced into something else.”

There are very good answers to her questions, answers which Crawford, either deliberately or through ignorance, failed to report, answers which are available to anyone with a passing familiarity with health insurance.

The rest: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-misleading-obamacare-report-womans-plan-paid-50-per-service-doesnt-cover-hospitalization/

[Mass]

1. I knew that was something like that. Unfortunately, media do not bother asking questions.

Good of Mediaite people to do their job.

CBS should showcase that insurance companies were robbing people with these contracts.

[JaneyVee]

2. Check the article update as well, this lady was clueless of her own policy.

[Mass]

3. Not surprised by that. A lot of people thought they had insurance and they were

ripped off by their insurance. As long as they did not need it, it was OK, but at the first real problem, guess what. She would have been on her own.

Frankly, given that she is in the range where she needs mammograms and bone density, it is likely she will spend less with her new insurance than with the one she has.

[anneboleyn]

8. MTE. She is not having yearly mammograms, etc. on such a plan. At her age -- very dangerous

[Shrike47]

4. Mainstream media journalis have a responsibility here they are failing and refusing to meet.

They should know this kind of statement is inherantly suspect. If I tell them my cancer was cured by an Orgone box, does that make it true?

[progressoid]

5. Their responsibility is to their coporate owners.

And their bank account. They don't give a shit about journalism anymore.

[cui bono]

6. Such crap reporting.

"But many people just want the peace of mind to know that if something really bad happens, they won’t have to worry about being billed into the poorhouse. What if the worst happens, and Dianne needs to be hospitalized due to sudden illness or injury? Well, unless Dianne is suffering complications due to pregnancy, her plan covers nothing. If she’s having complications from pregnancy, it covers fifty bucks."

This article needs to be sent to her and CBS news heads by every one who sees it.

[Trekologer]

15. The media reports the "controversy"

They stopped looking into the tales to check whether the controversy was a real thing or not. What did Chuck Todd say? It wasn't the media's job to fact check?

[anneboleyn]

7. Of course Fox ran with this false story. I can't believe that woman was that ignorant

about the nature of her plan.

[cui bono]

16. She probably isn't.

It'll come out she's some sort of Republican operative.

Remember this idiot?

[Warren Stupidity]

9. I heard that this morning and nearly bricked the tv.

I keep asking my wife to stop turning on Morning Truth, I keep pointing out example after example of why it is total bullshit, but she is a creature of habit.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Didn't take long for the real story to come out, did it??

I knew that $50/mo. was bullshit (especially from BCBS)

[Rex]

11. Same here, they are scared to death that the ACA will become

another Great Act. It would KILL them to admit that Dems were hugely successful and the GOP sat on their hands like babies. Their paymasters would fire them!

[SoapBox]

12. Reporting shit lies like this should be illegal.

And someone, anyone should be able to sue their ass over "misinformation".

[SoapBox]

13. p.s...maybe the President should give them a phone call to clear up this matter!

[TxDemChem]

14. I love the fact checking that responsible media

personnel perform. I'm just waiting for someone I know to make BS comments in public that will be shot down in front of everyone.

[IronLionZion]

17. The Republican party is destroying their own voters

Have you ever seen a reform that so dramatically improves the lives of those who support it, while many opponents are left out?

People who want it are finding a way to sign up, compare plans, and buy what they feel is best. Its not that hard. There are even nonprofit plans out there for the "fight the corporations" crowd.

People who expect to have a positive experience are having a positive experience, especially in states with Dem governors. People who expect epic failure are missing out. ACA supporters in red states should check out the phone and local office options, or mail in the forms if they don't want to wait for the federal website to get fixed.

Those who don't sign up for some sort of coverage are taking a huge unnecessary risk with their lives and financial future. When something bad happens to them and they blame obamacare for ruining their lives, they will be too sick or dead to go out and pull the lever for GOP. And they'll be too broke to donate to the Ted Cruz's of the world.

I've never seen a group hate their own people the way the GOP shows contempt and disdain for their own poor conservative constituents.

Just watch blue states economies and health scores improve compared to their red neighbors. And same thing with people who sign up for something will be better off than their neighbors who don't. This will show itself very soon, in the first few years.

I still don't know why the Dems are complete train wreck at PR, even with the GOP cutting the budget. They could go out on TV and radio and write op-eds. It takes DUers to point out very important provisions in the law, like they still have cheap catastrophic plans for the under 30 or poor crowd, which I only saw today. I had one of these when in school. It's great for young, poor, healthy people. Except the new plans are infinitely better than the old ones. The old ones didn't cover anything.