I don’t mean to belabor this point, but the degree to which conservative media are exhibiting confirmation bias when it comes to news about the Affordable Care Act is both darkly amusing and instructive.
Yesterday’s hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was an embarrassment for House Republicans. The insurance industry executives brought before the committee testified that premium payment rates for Obamacare enrollees ranged between 80 and 90 percent, which flatly debunked a report released last week by Republicans claiming that just 67 percent had paid. The insurance representatives “refused to go along with” Republican plans to publicly flense the ACA, noted the New York Times, “and surprised Republican critics of the law by undercutting some of their arguments against it.”
The hearing was also an embarrassing moment for the conservative media outlets that hyped the bogus Republican report on premium payments. Those same outlets covered yesterday’s hearing, but took special care to omit any mention of any of the positive Obamacare news that emerged from it.
Yesterday’s hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was an embarrassment for House Republicans. The insurance industry executives brought before the committee testified that premium payment rates for Obamacare enrollees ranged between 80 and 90 percent, which flatly debunked a report released last week by Republicans claiming that just 67 percent had paid. The insurance representatives “refused to go along with” Republican plans to publicly flense the ACA, noted the New York Times, “and surprised Republican critics of the law by undercutting some of their arguments against it.”
The hearing was also an embarrassing moment for the conservative media outlets that hyped the bogus Republican report on premium payments. Those same outlets covered yesterday’s hearing, but took special care to omit any mention of any of the positive Obamacare news that emerged from it.
http://www.salon.com/2014/05/08/the_rights_sad_obamacare_transition_as_good_news_rolls_in_what_to_do/
