Blogger smokes out Obamacare lies by
another "traditional" media newspaper.

Jan 12, 2014--It is common knowledge to those who follow Obamacare that there is an entire industry ready to destroy it at all cost.

The Corporate "traditional" media continues to mislead and misinform.

It isn’t only the smaller media outlets that are generating the barrage of misinformation.

CBS News, whose ‘60 Minutes’ has been compromised with Benghazi and NSA misleading stories, has been a major culprit.

CBS’s Jan Crawford reported a story about a woman losing the insurance she loved and could afford.

Had CBS made just one telephone call or checked healthcare.gov they would have learned that the woman could get better and more reliable insurance for a comparable price.

It is a new day in media.

Corporate-owned major media purposely allow themselves to be a conduit to lies and misinformation.

Enter bloggers and other independent media, previously with little reach, now fact-checking.

They are using the power of the internet to inform with fact-based information not hit and miss pieces now so endemic in traditional media.

Maggie Mahar, a prolific blogger at HealthBeat Blog and author of ‘Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much’ wrote the blog post Anatomy of an Obamacare ‘horror story’ detailing yet another misinforming story.

It turns out the story in the Fort Worth Star Telegram was not only biased, it was simply not true, Maher writes.

For months health reform opponents have been feasting on tales of Obamacare’s innocent victims--Americans who lost their insurance because it doesn’t comply with ACA regulations.

Now they have to shell out more than they can afford or go without coverage.

Trouble is, many of those stories just aren’t true.

Yesterday Maher posted about a Fort Worth Star Telegram article that leads with the tale of Whitney Johnson, a 26-year-old new mother who suffers from multiple sclerosis (MS).

Her insurer just cancelled her policy, and according to Johnson, new insurance would cost her over $1,000 a month.

That claim stopped Maher in her tracks. Under the ACA, no 26-year-old could be charged $1,000 monthly--even if she has MS.

Obamacare prohibits insurers from charging more because a customer suffers from a pre-existing condition.

This rule applies to all new policies, whether they are sold inside or outside the exchanges.

Maher got involved.

She checked healthcare.gov and found out that a comparable policy with better and secure coverage would cost Whitney Johnson $7 more than she was currently paying.

Maggie Mahar went even further. She called the Fort Worth Star Telegrram.

She was told the newspaper received an email stating Whitney Johnson did find insurance at a similar price.

The newspaper either has its own agenda or is afraid of reporting the truth.

They eventually offered a mea culpa for the less-than-complete story.

Maggie Mahar also learned that Whitney Johnson is a member of the Tea Party.

Mahar finally reached the reporter, who told her she had little experience covering healthcare.

Moreover her assignment was to find people who were having problems with Obamacare.

When she suggested doing a story on people helped by Obamacare she was not given a green light from her editor.

The Fort Worth Star Telegram has over 200,000 readers.

They chose to misinform these users maybe negligently, maybe willfully.

What is sure is that so far they have chosen to willfully keep them misinformed.

If this isn’t yet another reason to disregard most of corporate and traditional media, what is?

The consequences of deliberately misinforming the public are grave and can even be fatal.

The public needs to be reminded that the media that was once the source of unbiased reporting no longer exists.