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Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 12:13 PM Jun 2014

Healthcare debate lacks factual argument against Obamacare

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-20140629-column.html#page=1

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"Americans have always been a politically contentious lot. But one topic seems to produce more pure vitriol than any other: the Affordable Care Act.

I posted an item on my Times blog, the Economy Hub, citing new statistics indicating that the act has materially reduced the ranks of the uninsured, kept premiums moderate and seemed likely to keep rate increases modest next year. I sought agreement that, given these developments, "Obamacare is working."

I didn't get it. What I got instead was an unexampled outpouring of angry, vulgar and bitter emails, almost none of them bearing even the slightest attempt to counter my statistics with alternative facts.

Here's one: The subject line advised me to perform an anatomical act on myself not physically plausible or suitable for repetition in print. The text read:

"Also, I hope you get cancer and die. Painfully."

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Healthcare debate lacks factual argument against Obamacare (Original Post) Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2014 OP
An Excellent Piece, Ma'am The Magistrate Jun 2014 #1
You are more than welcome, Your Magistrate Iwillnevergiveup Jun 2014 #2

Iwillnevergiveup

(9,298 posts)
2. You are more than welcome, Your Magistrate
Sun Jun 29, 2014, 12:30 PM
Jun 2014

It struck me that way, too. But this columnist reliably cuts through all the crap and tells it!



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