{"id":14908,"date":"2013-10-21T09:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T13:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=14908"},"modified":"2013-10-21T10:34:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:34:48","slug":"one-big-problem-with-heritages-new-obamacare-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2013\/10\/21\/one-big-problem-with-heritages-new-obamacare-study\/","title":{"rendered":"One Big Problem With Heritage&#8217;s New Obamacare Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Talking Points Memo<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Talking Points Memo article\" href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/dc\/one-big-problem-with-the-heritage-foundation-s-new-obamacare-study\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>One Big Problem With Heritage&#8217;s New Obamacare Study<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The conservative Heritage Foundation released last week a new report on insurance premiums under Obamacare, and the conclusion was that favorite of conservative talking points: people are going to pay more for insurance under Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>Only the foundation left out one key variable in the equation, one that undermines their conclusion that &#8220;individuals in most states will end up spending more on the exchanges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They didn&#8217;t account for the financial help that the Affordable Care Act gives uninsured people to purchase insurance, one of the law&#8217;s central provisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, when you hear Republicans talk about the harm ACA is doing, the jobs that have been lost, and the working hours cut, just repeat after me, <span style=\"font-size: 200%; color: #ff6600;\">&#8220;They are lying.&#8221;<\/span> It seems a pretty safe bet that you will be right. So what else about the Republican plan for this country should you doubt?<\/p>\n<p>Just once, when Ted Cruz and others start with their tirades, it would be nice to hear a reporter ask, &#8220;Can you prove any of this?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talking Points Memo has the article One Big Problem With Heritage&#8217;s New Obamacare Study. The conservative Heritage Foundation released last week a new report on insurance premiums under Obamacare, and the conclusion was that favorite of conservative talking points: people are going to pay more for insurance under Obamacare. Only the foundation left out one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14911,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14908\/revisions\/14911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}