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What The Media Won’t Talk About: 17 Million Uninsured are Eligible for ACA Tax Credits
What The Media Won’t Talk About: 17 Million Uninsured are Eligible for ACA Tax Credits
By: Sarah Jones more from Sarah Jones
Tuesday, November, 5th, 2013, 12:46 pm
Thanks to ObamaCare, an estimated 17 million Americans who are now uninsured or who buy their own insurance will be eligible for tax credits in 2014.
The Kaiser Foundation does actual healthcare policy, and they have a new report out today in which you will find more information than you will get all day from any mainstream media outlet.
“We estimate that about 17 million people who are now uninsured or who buy insurance on their own (“nongroup purchasers”) will be eligible for premium tax credits in 2014.”
Instead of focusing on 17 million people being eligible for tax credits, the media is busy running with the GOP narrative that Obama lied, the website sucks and affordable healthcare for everyone is a scam (see a and b). Allow me to translate for you: Help real people or report on things from a self-referential, egotistical basis in which the pundit’s political calls about this President’s exact choice of words are much more important than actual policy impacts? Gee…
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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/05/media-ignores-insurance-scams-17-million-eligible-aca-tax-credits.html