In the Wednesday, September 28, 2011 edition of The Telegraph they run the article “Employees’ health insurance costs spike." The story point out there has been over a $1,300 rise in the cost of health insurance premiums. But never fear the last sentence in the article assures us that:
“The survey did not project future insurance costs, but a separate report recently predicted that expenses for U.S. employers will slow next year.”
We think people can reasonably assume that because Duke Helfand of the Los Angeles Times was either embellishing the “separate report” which “recently predicted that expenses for U.S. employers will slow next year.” If there was such a report and it did in fact provide information to this effect, why not inform the reader who the author of the report was and where this information could be found. The Telegraph article can be found here.
This may be similar to what The Telegraph attempted last year. Prior to the News Talk Central Program now aired on Fox Channel 24 WGXA. The Telegraph had a program called “Mix in the Morning” which was broadcast over 940 WMAC. AM
Obama and the democrat’s abject effort to shove the health care law down the throat’s of the citizens of this great country was in full force. On the morning of March 21, 2010 Editorial Page Staff editor Charles E. Richardson and by extension The Telegraph came on the air telling everyone that “Large industries were pushing for the health-care.” This carried over into the next day. Then the news began to break about how much the “health-care” law would cost the large industries and it began to surface. The Telegraph was forced to drop this effort. We might note that whether you wish to label this “misinformation” or call it an out and out lie, as it is the same. This is another reason we refer to Charles E. Richardson as Low-Grade. He is notorious for low-grade scams of this sort.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010 and is now before the courts.
We also might know that since that time there have been over 1,300 waivers to various industries and companies nation wide. In other words Obama’s health-care program is being forced on everyone except the companies which he chooses to grant waivers too. There were numerous grants awarded to Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district in California. Harry Reid’s home state of Nevada was the recipient of some of these waivers also. The Unions were also granted waivers
As for as we can determine President and Publisher George McCanless of The Telegraph and his staff to date, have not mentioned these waivers.
McCanless’s staff consist of Executive Editor, Sherrie Marshall, Editorial Page Editor, Charles E. Richardson and we might note Kenny Burgamy’s name is on the masthead as a visiting member. We are not sure of his function. However judging from appearance he is being used to make an attempt to add creditability to the slant and what appears as the dishonesty of The Telegraph. McClatchy Newspapers own the Telegraph.
We might also note that in his “The Obamacare Disaster – An appraisal of the patient protection and affordable care act” Peter Ferrara has some interesting information.
On Page 20 he discusses “Rationing in Massachusetts”. He tells us that: “Massachusetts offers a preview of the rationing Obamacare is likely to bring forth. The 2006 government takeover of health care in that state involved policies very similar to those contained in Obamacare, and in fact parts of the latter were modeled after the Massachusetts programs.”
If we read Mr. Ferrara’s book we find numerous items of interest. Like the following:
“In 2008, the Massachusetts Medical Society reported nearly half of all internists in the state were not accepting new patients, with waiting times for an appointment increasing sharply to 52 days.”
“By the fall of 2008, the “Boston Globe” was reporting the wait to see a primary care doctor had grown to as long as 100 days, ‘As a result,’ John Goodman writes, ‘the waiting times to see a new doctor in Boston are twice as long as in any other U.S. city.’”
“Because they can’t get in to see a doctor, ‘Thousands of newly insured Massachusetts residents are relying on emergency rooms for routine medical care, an expensive habit that drives up health care costs and thwarts a major goal of the state’s first in the nation insurance law,’ the Boston Globe” reported in April 2009.”
The above is just a fraction of the information available in the book. The entire book is worth reading. More information is available at:
“The Heartland Institute” 19 south LaSalle Street #903, Chicago, Illinois 60603Phone 312/377-4000www.heatland.org
This information you will never see in The Telegraph.
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