Fox News' Sean Hannity lies about Obamacare are debunked.

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Sean Hannity brings three couples on his show to share their ills they have received from obamacare. A reporter on salon decides to do his own reporting and finds out that not only were their opinions inaccurate, it was also downright lies being said about the Affordable Care Act. None of them actually tried seeking out information about how much their insurance would be under obamacare, they didn't enroll either.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/ins...ine_i_fact_checked_sean_hannity_on_obamacare/

1st Couple

First I spoke with Paul Cox of Leicester, N.C. He and his wife Michelle had lamented to Hannity that because of Obamacare, they can’t grow their construction business and they have kept their employees below a certain number of hours, so that they are part-timers.

Obamacare has no effect on businesses with 49 employees or less. But in our brief conversation on the phone, Paul revealed that he has only four employees. Why the cutback on his workforce? “Well,” he said, “I haven’t been forced to do so, it’s just that I’ve chosen to do so. I have to deal with increased costs.” What costs? And how, I asked him, is any of it due to Obamacare? There was a long pause, after which he said he’d call me back. He never did.

There is only one Obamacare requirement that applies to a company of this size: workers must be notified of the existence of the “healthcare.gov” website, the insurance exchange. That’s all.
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2nd Couple

Next I called Allison Denijs. She’d told Hannity that she pays over $13,000 a year in premiums. Like the other guests, she said she had recently gotten a letter from Blue Cross saying that her policy was being terminated and a new, ACA-compliant policy would take its place. She says this shows that Obama lied when he promised Americans that we could keep our existing policies.

Allison’s husband left his job a few years ago, one with benefits at a big company, to start his own business. Since then they’ve been buying insurance on the open market, and are now paying around $1,100 a month for a policy with a $2,500 deductible per family member, with hefty annual premium hikes. One of their two children is not covered under the policy. She has a preexisting condition that would require purchasing additional coverage for $800 a month, which would bring the family’s grand total to $19,000 a year.

I asked Allison if she’d shopped on the exchange, to see what a plan might cost under the new law. She said she hadn’t done so because she’d heard the website was not working. Would she try it out when it’s up and running? Perhaps, she said. She told me she has long opposed Obamacare, and that the president should have focused on tort reform as a solution to bringing down the price of healthcare.

I tried an experiment and shopped on the exchange for Allison and Kurt. Assuming they don’t smoke and have a household income too high to be eligible for subsidies, I found that they would be able to get a plan for around $7,600, which would include coverage for their uninsured daughter. This would be about a 60 percent reduction from what they would have to pay on the pre-Obamacare market.
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3rd Couple

Finally, I called Robbie and Tina Robison from Franklin, Tenn. Robbie is self-employed as a Christian youth motivational speaker. (You can see his work here.) On Hannity, the couple said that they, too, were recently notified that their Blue Cross policy would be expiring for lack of ACA compliance. They told Hannity that the replacement plans Blue Cross was offering would come with a rate increase of 50 percent or even 75 percent, and that the new offerings would contain all sorts of benefits they don’t need, like maternity care, pediatric care, prenatal care and so forth. Their kids are grown and moved out, so why should they be forced to pay extra for a health plan with superfluous features?

When I spoke to Robbie, he said he and Tina have been paying a little over $800 a month for their plan, about $10,000 a year. And the ACA-compliant policy will cost 50-75 percent more? They said this information was related to them by their insurance agent.

Had they shopped on the exchange yet, I asked? No, Tina said, nor would they. They oppose Obamacare and want nothing to do with it. Fair enough, but they should know that I found a plan for them for, at most, $3,700 a year, a 63 percent less than their current bill. It might cover things that they don’t need, but so does every insurance policy.
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THE FUNNY THING IS THAT HIS GUESTS HAD BEEN MISINFORMED BY HIM AND HIS RIGHT WING MEDIA COMRADES, BROTHER! THEN HE INVITES THEM ON TO REPEAT THE PROPAGANDA HE'S BEEN PROVIDING THEM WITH FOR MONTHS, DUDE! THIS IS HOW ROMNEY ENDED UP IN THE CONSERVATIVE BUBBLE OF NON-FACTS AND THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO WIN THE ELECTION, MEAN GENE!
 
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hayesc0 said:
this is why i dont respond to obama criticism its usually ridiculous not that the president is perfect but the things people criticize him for are generally not true
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They don't can't and wont understand this though
 
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Hollywood Hogan said:
THE FUNNY THING IS THAT HIS GUESTS HAD BEEN MISINFORMED BY HIM AND HIS RIGHT WING MEDIA COMRADES, BROTHER! THEN HE INVITES THEM ON TO REPEAT THE PROPAGANDA HE'S BEEN PROVIDING THEM WITH FOR MONTHS, DUDE! THIS IS HOW ROMNEY ENDED UP IN THE CONSERVATIVE BUBBLE OF NON-FACTS AND THOUGHT HE WAS GOING TO WIN THE ELECTION, MEAN GENE!
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bro i don't know how many times i have to tell you that the real Hulk Hogan voted for Romney and is a Republican...stay consistent your golden as an alias but be real to the character breh...this isn't some marvel ultimate alternate universe type shyt
 
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I live in Kansas I truly believe that a lot of white people and some c00n black people cant stand to see a nikka succeed at this level you will be surprised how people will just come up to me at work and start complaining about president Obama and its just crazy. I think im the only nikka they see in the day thats wny they do it lol
 
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CACtain Planet said:
another liberal grasps at straws thread in defense of Obamacare
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What straws? Did you even read the article? The end point of the reporter's article is that no one knows if obamacare will be a success or if it will change medical practices for the better or worst but lying about it and making up false evidence is conniving shyt. It should be easy to stick to the facts of obamacare failures rather than trout out people who lie about actually using obamacare.
 
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hayesc0 said:
this is why i dont respond to obama criticism its usually ridiculous not that the president is perfect but the things people criticize him for are generally not true
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The problem with this is you then dismiss legitimate criticism of dude, and then engage in the very kind of alternate reality garbage you criticize the right for

You can't just be objective with the people you don't like, you have to be objective with everybody. Obama is fukkIGN UP,
 
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