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SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)
Fri Jun 22, 2012, 01:37 PM Jun 2012

I may be just me, but it seems all at once the mainstream media is talking about the ACA

I know we are waiting for the SCOTUS to announce their decision but that isn't what I am talking about.

During the debates I heard a lot about "death panels" and I heard the disinformation from Hannity, Limbaugh, Palin, Beck and the rest of the crew repeated on the mainstream new sources, which remember is suppose to be "liberal". I heard very little positive about the ACA but a lot of negative.

Once it was passed the media message was how President Obama walked a thin line of breaking the constitution as to the method in which it did pass.

Since then I have heard all of the challenges by states, all of polls which said it was not popular with the American people. How it was hated and should be repealed.

While the SCOTUS case was being argued I heard once again how it would be an uphill battle and how from the questions of some of the justices the case was all but decided.

Overall, a lot of negative information but very little positive.

However, now that we are days from hearing the SCOTUS decision all at once I am hearing that many American will lose if it is held unconstitutional. I have heard of the refund which won't be paid, of the young people who may loose coverage, of how those with preexisting conditions will once again have problems getting affordable insurance and even some of the dirty tactics insurance companies use and what they consider a preexisting condition.

I discovered this information because I searched for it on the internet, it took a little time, but it wan't hard.

Why now that it is to late to do anything all at once the new media is talking it up as something good?



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