CBS Celebrates Year of ObamaCare By Touting Its Benefits and Despairing Legal Battles May ‘Derail’ It
Wednesday’s CBS Evening News celebrated the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare by touting its benefits before Katie Couric, who devoted half her newscast to Elizabeth Taylor’s passing, fretted: “What about the legal battles? Could they actually derail health care reform altogether?”
Neither ABC nor NBC touched ObamaCare on Wednesday night but, in contrast to CBS, on FNC’s Special Report Carl Cameron noted “the latest Gallup poll suggests it’s less popular than a year ago” and raised how Obama allies are trying to escape it, citing “requests for over a thousand waivers, half of which went to labor unions letting them and some other organizations and businesses opt out of the plan until at least 2014.”
Couric began by asking Jan Crawford “what changes has the law made in the health care system so far?” Crawford recited:
The law says parents can keep their children on their insurance policies until they’re 26 years old. That means another 1.2 million young adults will get coverage. It also bans insurance companies from denying coverage to children who have pre-existing conditions. That affects up to 17 million children. And it's given some seniors more money to buy prescription drugs.
(Another media figure pleased with ObamaCare: In Tuesday's Washington Post “Business” section, Ezra Klein called it “a good law,” concluding: “So happy birthday, Affordable Care Act. Here’s to many more.”)
From the Wednesday, March 23 CBS Evening News:
KATIE COURIC: One year ago today President Obama signed the health care reform law meant to cut the number of uninsured in this country by about 30 million by 2016. But the legal challenges soon came pouring in. Jan Crawford is our chief legal correspondent. Jan, what changes has the law made in the health care system so far?
JAN CRAWFORD: Well, there have been quite a few. I mean, for example, the law says parents can keep their children on their insurance policies until they’re 26 years old. That means another 1.2 million young adults will get coverage. It also bans insurance companies from denying coverage to children who have pre-existing conditions. That affects up to 17 million children. And it's given some seniors more money to buy prescription drugs.
COURIC: And Jan, what about the legal battles? Could they actually derail health care reform altogether?
CRAWFORD: Well, absolutely. I mean there is this huge legal battle. It’s headed straight for the Supreme Court, possibly by the end of the year. Now 28 states are challenging the law, they say it eviscerates the constitution because it gives Congress this unchecked power. Now what they’re focusing on is a provision in the law that says everyone has to buy health insurance starting in the year 2014 or pay a penalty. These states say Congress can't make you buy something. Katie?
COURIC: All right, Jan Crawford in Washington, thank you.
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Note they never say
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:13am.
"a majority of states" when talking about opposition to ObysmalCare. They must live in Obysmal's World, where 28 isn't a majority because there are 57 states!
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Legal battles threaten to
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:15am.
Legal battles threaten to derail the "year of Obama"?
First of all, Obama is doing a good job of screwing himself and his regime over by his incompetence, lack of experience (see, we told ya so!), and far-left idealologies.
Secondly, legal battles can't derail something that left the tracks long ago.
Bwahahahahahahaha
Submitted by donabernathy on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:22am.
26 year old children!!!!!!!!!!!!
bwahahahahahahahahahaha
According to Military.com, a resource for information on the armed forces, there are different maximum age requirements, depending on the branch in which you enlist. For new recruits who have never been a part of the military, the cutoff ages are as follows:
Coast Guard, 27; Air Force, 28; Marines, 29: Army and Navy, 34; and Army Reserve, 35. You must enter into training before you reach these ages.
roflmao
Actually the statement is correct.
Submitted by astonrickenbach on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:35am.
"the law says parents can keep their children on their insurance policies until they’re 26 years old. That means another 1.2 million young adults will get coverage."
When you reference someones children, no matter what their age is they are still children of the parents. In the second sentence she does refer to them as young adults and not children.
I think the bigger issue is the way the questions are asked is interesting. They say the law has been challenged but start out by giving an open door to list the benefits and then discussing the challenge.
It would be like asking someone who was a victim of date rape what the criminal bought you for dinner first.
The benefits of HCR are irrelevant in relation to the illegality of it.
Obamacare has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 2:37pm.
Which part of unconsitutional are people are not getting here?
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Correct me if I am wrong, but
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 2:49pm.
Correct me if I am wrong, but as it currently stands 2 fed judges ruled it constitutional while 2 fed judges (in VA and FL) more recently ruled it unconstitutional.
And I also seem to remember that the two fed judges who ruled in favor are both Clinton appointees in Michigan and California.
This is setting up a major SCOTUS showdown.
Bb,
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 9:08pm.
LOL - You know, I don't even know anymore.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
26 year old "children" should be paying for their own
Submitted by ROSIE RIGHT on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 3:12pm.
health insurance. With a JOB! You can bet they all have the latest in electronic gizmos and have their faces stuck in them constantly. Parents should not have to provide for all their basic needs for that long. There are jobs out there, get crackin', kiddo!