This morning, MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts echoed the likes of Amanda Marcotte, Josh Barro, and President Obama with his pronouncement that Americans’ loss of health coverage under the ACA is the fault of private insurers, whose plans just weren’t “up to code.” Thanks to those nefarious insurance companies, naïve citizens were hoodwinked into buying “junk policies” that left them teetering on the edge of bankruptcy:
Transcript:
Is there an intellectual dishonesty that’s happening here from Republicans who are not willing to admit that the shame should really be on private insurance companies who have been selling junk policies to these millions of Americans that don’t meet, now, the ACA’s federal standard of health care that people should have in this country? That basically, there are millions of Americans that have been one disaster — that they can’t even comprehend — away from going into bankruptcy because of the fact that they have had a junk policy that has given them a falsity of safety.
Seriously? What’s it gonna take for Roberts to admit that the Obama administration is responsible for putting insurance companies into this position in the first place?
So I guess @ThomasARoberts doesnt comprehend how Obama lied when he said "If you like your Health Care plan, you can keep it PERIOD" @MSNBC
— Sal (@SundevilSal) October 31, 2013
Running interference for Obama is a full-time job.
So ur plan Obama promised over and over u could keep the left wing media is calling "Junk" to cover up his lies. lol @ThomasARoberts @msnbc
— Sal (@SundevilSal) October 31, 2013
What a hack.
@ThomasARoberts How dare you call 15M insurance policies "junk"! Mine has been in effect 12 yrs, very satisfactorily. You can judge better?
— Bill (@SondoBill) October 31, 2013
@ThomasARoberts Hey Thomas, what makes you think the government should be able to dictate to us what our healthcare coverage should be?
— Brian Bunn (@sacflies) October 31, 2013
@ThomasARoberts why do you get to tell us what ins is good or bad. We can read.
— Uncle Paul (@Paul_ACE13) October 31, 2013
Roberts, on the other hand, doesn’t seem to be so good at that.
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