Mirror universes: this story is being spread on right wing

[hedgehog]

sources as an example of how bad ObamaCare is:

The original report in a local newspaper:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/health/2014/07/05/couple-married-years-separate-wife-can-keep-insurance/12203959/

as picked up by the Left:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/07/07/3456863/tennessee-medicaid-expansion-couple/

as picked up by the Right:

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/obama-forces-married-couple-divorce/

[Downwinder]

1. Nothing new. Even has a name. Known as medical divorce.

It was around before the ACA.

[hedgehog]

3. You mean that some people had problems with their health

insurance before Obamacare? No way!



FWIW - I'm working this week with a lot of white males, and several take every opportunity to say something bad about Obama. I thought I'd report in from behind the lines!

[packman]

4. Remember Tax Divorces?

There was a time-before the IRS closed the loophole-that married couples would get a quickie divorce, usually in some tropical vacation island, to qualify for lower tax burden. Then after filing as separate individuals, get remarried. Never could talk my wife into it.

[davidpdx]

2. It is a bunch of bullshit that these states are allowed to opt out