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- Hike In Health Insurance Premiums Due To Rising Health Costs, Not Reform Law, Factcheck.org Concludes
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- Cbhc Reaction To U.s. Census Bureau 2012 Health Insurance Status Data
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FactCheck.org takes apart attacks on Obamacare
FactCheck.org is a non-profit, non-partisan center in the Annenberg Center at the University of Pennsylvania. It blows the whistle on misleading advertising and other statements of political figures. The center tries to balance its analyses between the parties, but the Republican attacks on federal health-care reform have been so strong and subjective, and Democrats have mounted so little defense or so few counterpunches, that the center's latest "Party Lines" report is all about Republican advertising against Obamacare. Here are capsules provided by FactCheck, with the label linking to each report:
Government-Run Health Care: Republican congressional candidates claim the health care law puts the government between you and your doctor. But the law boosts private insurance, and it doesn?t create a government-run system.
ACA ?Hurting? Families: Ads criticizing the Affordable Care Act make the general claim that it?s ?hurting? families. Some families could pay more for insurance, but millions of the uninsured will gain coverage. And millions will get subsidies to help pay for coverage.
?Skyrocketing? Premiums: Several ads make the misleading claim that premiums and health care costs are ?skyrocketing? under the Affordable Care Act. Overall, both are growing at historically low rates. Some who buy their own insurance will pay more, but others will pay less.
?Millions? Lost Insurance: Anti-Obamacare ads have claimed that ?millions? lost their health insurance and their doctors because of the law. But policyholders weren?t denied coverage, and there?s evidence that far more gained insurance than had their plans canceled.
Government-Run Health Care: Republican congressional candidates claim the health care law puts the government between you and your doctor. But the law boosts private insurance, and it doesn?t create a government-run system.
ACA ?Hurting? Families: Ads criticizing the Affordable Care Act make the general claim that it?s ?hurting? families. Some families could pay more for insurance, but millions of the uninsured will gain coverage. And millions will get subsidies to help pay for coverage.
?Skyrocketing? Premiums: Several ads make the misleading claim that premiums and health care costs are ?skyrocketing? under the Affordable Care Act. Overall, both are growing at historically low rates. Some who buy their own insurance will pay more, but others will pay less.
?Millions? Lost Insurance: Anti-Obamacare ads have claimed that ?millions? lost their health insurance and their doctors because of the law. But policyholders weren?t denied coverage, and there?s evidence that far more gained insurance than had their plans canceled.
- Gop Claim That Obamacare Will Hike Kentuckians' Premiums 34 Percent Is 'mostly False,' Herald-leader Says In An Analysis
A Republican Party claim that Obamacare will raise Kentuckians' health-insurance premiums 34 percent is mostly false, the Lexington Herald-Leader said in a news analysis Saturday. The National Republican Senatorial Committee made the claim in a news...
- Will Birth-control Mandate Cost More Or Less? Yet To Be Seen
Will requiring insurance companies to provide contraception be cost-neutral, as the Obama administration claims? It is unclear, and so is whether insurance companies will make Catholic institutions pay more. These were the findings of FactCheck.org,...
- Hike In Health Insurance Premiums Due To Rising Health Costs, Not Reform Law, Factcheck.org Concludes
Health insurance premiums for employer-sponsored family plans shot up by 9 percent from 2010 to 2011, but the bulk of the hike is due to the increase in health care costs, not the federal health-care reform law, non-partisan FactCheck.org has found. ...
- Factcheck.org: Health Reform Does Not 'kill Jobs'; Gop Disagrees
In their report released last week, Republicans in the U.S. House said the new health reform law will be "job-killing," but FactCheck.org has concluded that is not necessarily the case. The Republican report, released Jan. 6 and entitled "Obamacare: A...
- Cbhc Reaction To U.s. Census Bureau 2012 Health Insurance Status Data
September 17, 2013 Statement by Jim Duffett, Executive Director, Campaign for Better Health Care, on U.S. Census Bureau 2012 Health Insurance Status Data This morning, the U. S. Census Bureau announced findings from the official report...