After reading this CNN article, my blood started to boil not because it was wrong. It was because of the willful incompetence of the media trying to attain a false balance. The lack of urgency from the Democrats in the article and their inability to prepare for Americans for what will hit Obamacare recipients later this year is a dereliction of their duty.
It is no joke what Americans will be hit with in September and October when new Obamacare rates are released if they even have it in their respective counties. And what does CNN tell its readers? They put out an article titled “Senate Democrats taunt Republicans: Let’s fix Obamacare together” that trivializes the severity of the pain many Americans will go through in their 2018 healthcare.
MJ Lee starts the article as follows.
(CNN)Senate Republicans say they’re not sure they can pass an Obamacare repeal bill this year, they have yet to decide what exactly will go into their legislation, and some have even suggested that the Senate should vote on a health care bill as quickly as possible — even if it fails. And now, Democrats are taunting them from across the political aisle: Come work with us. …
That fresh uncertainty is energizing Democrats. Determined to protect former President Barack Obama’s landmark heath care law, Democrats are seizing the moment to repeatedly call on Republicans to abandon their repeal efforts — and team up with Democrats on improving the Affordable Care Act instead.
The premise is that Democrats are playing some game. We are talking about people’s health and lives. It is not about saving President Obama’s landmark. It is about ensuring Americans are protected financially and insured.
The reporter’s superficiality of our health care reality was palpable. She did not query about why Obamacare will likely be unusable for those who use the ACA Marketplace. But worse is the inability for Democrats to articulate in no uncertain terms that Trump through his HHS director Tom Price is undermining it.
Is there any urgency in the following statements?
A Democratic Senate leadership aide told CNN on Tuesday that Senate Democrats see a growing recognition among some of their GOP colleagues that a partisan health care bill may not be able to produce enough Republican votes for passage.
“They need to be willing to completely drop repeal,” the leadership aide said, describing the message from Democrats and Republicans as: “We’re ready to sit down and work with you as soon as you guys tell us you’re off repeal. We’ll get to work on a deal.” …
“No matter what Republicans claim, they’re working as hard as they can to jam their version of Trumpcare through the Senate to deliver a political win for President Trump and massive tax breaks for those at the top,” Democratic Sen. Patty Murray said. “And the minute they get 50 votes, this bill will be on the floor.”
Why didn’t these Democrats use this opportunity to drive the message that had the status quo remained without Trump’s attempt to sabotage Obamacare as it stands now, that massive health care pain in 2018 would not occur? Please check out the article “Obamacare is in danger of laying the path for Trumpcare” and share it. Let folks know that Trump is killing Obamacare from within, death by a thousand cuts.
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