West Michigan Woman Featured In Anti-Obamacare Ad; Claim Questioned By Fact-Checker

[Purveyor]

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – A West Michigan woman who is unhappy with the Affordable Care Act is featured in a conservative group’s ad attacking Rep. Gary Peters, D-Mich.

Shannon Wendt, of Tallmadge Township, complains about the cost of her new health plan in the Americans for Prosperity ad, which has been questioned by a fact-check column in The Washington Post.

Wendt, a mother of five who sells jewelry and knit products, received national attention in January when she appeared in a Fox News story about her troubles signing up for a plan through the federal insurance marketplace. She said her children were deemed ineligible for insurance, and health care navigators could not determine why.

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The fact-check column by Glenn Kessler, of The Washington Post, rates the ad featuring Wendt with “two Pinocchios,” meaning it contains “significant omissions and/or exaggerations.” The column highlights the difference between the ad and Wendt’s earlier comment on her insurance.

It cites a Jan. 2 MLive article in which Wendt said the Health Insurance Marketplace calculators showed a new plan for herself and her husband, Zach, would cost – with a subsidy - close to what they paid last year for a high-deductible, low-premium plan.

However, on Saturday, March 30, Wendt said she made that comment when she mistakenly believed she would qualify for a subsidy. But she was not eligible for the subsidy because her family qualified for Healthy Michigan, the expanded Medicaid plan that begins April 1.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2014/03/west_michigan_woman_featured_i.html

[louis-t]

1. So when is she going on Fox to tell them she was wrong?

Hmmmm?

[11 Bravo]

6. As soon as pigs fly out of her ass. And probably then she'll make another commercial ...

lying about how Obamacare won't pay for the subsequent anal tearing.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. So she qualifies for Medicaid and is pissed about it?

Wow.



If this is the best attack they have, this law must be working pretty damn well.

[Takket]

3. i've seen the commercial and...

it makes me want to throw my remote through the TV. she speaks in a condesending and smug tone that is beyond obnoxious.... in addition to being flat out wrong

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. posted to to find later.

[etherealtruth]

5. Living here I am subjected to her self pitying lies

Shannon Wendt, of Tallmadge Township, you are narcissistic, lying, scum.

I have no patience with your greed and stupidity.

(obviously, these asinine commercials have enraged me!)

[Thinkingabout]

7. It is shameful when someone would climb a tree to tell a lie when the truth would

Sound better on the ground. Where are the journalist on FOX, sitting by and announcing false information and not checking for the truth first. Shameful RW bunch.