Here is the start of a report by Jan Crawford on CBS "This Morning":
Nearly five weeks into the launch of HealthCare.gov, the management expert brought in to turn around the website says its issues are fixable. But it's going to take weeks, not days. That comes as some Americans are being surprised, not only that they are being booted off their current plans, but at how much they're being asked to pay for new ones.
For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative: a broken website, and now cancellation notices from insurance companies followed by sticker shock over higher prices for the new plans. It's directly at odds with repeated assurances from the president.
A fair question to ask right now is this: why are they surprised? For years people have been warned that there would be a myriad of plans that would not meet the requirements of Obamacare. Everyone on those plans was going to lose them. Obama's promise that you could keep your plan if you liked it was clearly false. Also, for many years, people have been warned that Obamacare would necessarily increase the premiums due for the surviving plans. Over the last six months, the news about increases in premiums grew from a trickle to a torrent. But now CBS is telling us that Americans are surprised! And you know what? Probably the main reason that Americans are surprised is that CBS and the other members of the mainstream media did not bother to report what was surely going to happen. Millions of folks are going to lose their insurance and not be able to afford to replace it, and that story is one that the mainstream media either ignored or did not understand.
Nearly five weeks into the launch of HealthCare.gov, the management expert brought in to turn around the website says its issues are fixable. But it's going to take weeks, not days. That comes as some Americans are being surprised, not only that they are being booted off their current plans, but at how much they're being asked to pay for new ones.
For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative: a broken website, and now cancellation notices from insurance companies followed by sticker shock over higher prices for the new plans. It's directly at odds with repeated assurances from the president.
A fair question to ask right now is this: why are they surprised? For years people have been warned that there would be a myriad of plans that would not meet the requirements of Obamacare. Everyone on those plans was going to lose them. Obama's promise that you could keep your plan if you liked it was clearly false. Also, for many years, people have been warned that Obamacare would necessarily increase the premiums due for the surviving plans. Over the last six months, the news about increases in premiums grew from a trickle to a torrent. But now CBS is telling us that Americans are surprised! And you know what? Probably the main reason that Americans are surprised is that CBS and the other members of the mainstream media did not bother to report what was surely going to happen. Millions of folks are going to lose their insurance and not be able to afford to replace it, and that story is one that the mainstream media either ignored or did not understand.
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