It shouldn't be a surprise since the entire platform of the modern GOP is a fraud that in the state that has been enrolling people head and shoulders above most others - the California Republican Assembly has sponsored their own California Health Care Website, which actually manages to enroll far fewer people than HealthCare.gov.
In fact it enrolls NO ONE in Health Care, instead it pushes forth a tone of false narratives and scare tactics to keep people from even trying to sign up for Health Care on the real CoveredCalifornia.gov.
First of course you have to scare Seniors about Medicare Cuts.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
Seniors on Medicare may not see changes immediately to their benefits or coverage. Down the line, however, the erosion and accessibility of care may become a problem.
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To pay for other components of the Affordable Care Act such as expanding Medicaid and creating state health exchanges, Medicare providers will see rate cuts nearing $200 billion over the next decade. These cuts could potentially result in the exodus of doctors from the Medicare system and force Medicare recipients to find new providers, possibly facing longer wait times for care as that pool of doctors shrinks.
Now this is a repeat of the false Mitt Romney claim that Obama had cut $700 Billion from Medicare, when in fact it was a cut to payments to
Medicare Advantage not the baseline Medicare Program. These are cuts which the Ryan Medicare Plan
KEPT IN PLACE, so exactly what is the difference?
Coveringhealthcareca.com's "Learn More" section may be the most telling. At the top of the page, visitors see links to the websites of Covered California, the Kaiser Family Foundation, the California Attorney General, and the National Republican Congressional Committee -- the group whose job is to keep and increase the Republican majority in the House. Further down the page, some links take readers to national news outlets, like The Los Angeles Times and the Associated Press, but others lead to the websites of partisan organizations like The Heritage Foundation, The Heartland Institute, and The Galen Institute. The section headings on the page gives a flavor of the focus: "Rising Cost of Health Care," "Privacy," "Rate Hikes," "Impact on the Economy," "Bureaucracy," "IRS Penalty.",
If you click in the link that says "I Don't Have Health Care" it takes you to a calculator that tells you
How Expensive Your Tax Penalty will be for not buying health care under the mandate.
http://www.coveringhealthcareca.com/...
IRS Tax Penalty: In the first year, that penalty is $95 per person or one percent of your adjusted gross income, whichever is greater. For example, an individual without insurance making $45,000 net a year* would pay a penalty of $352 for the 2014 tax year. By 2016, that penalty would increase to $695 per person or 2.5 percent of income. That same uncovered individual making $45,000 would now owe $881 to the IRS. Under the law, penalties will increase each year going forward with penalties for uninsured children being half the adult amount.
See, isn't that informative? You might have to pay $300-$800 per YEAR if you choose to go without healthcare and don't happen to get sick and need to go the emergency room, or don't have any chronic or preventable conditions.
On the other hand if you're aren't anywhere near that LUCKY and happen to make $45,000 a year you might have to spend HALF YOUR YEARLY PAYCHECK on the cost of an Emergency By-Pass Surgery, or the removal of a Gall-Stone, Kidney Stone, Stroke, Car Accident or Slip and Fall in your Bathtub.
It's not that the information is wrong, it's not - it's most likely correct - but it's dramatically Slanted with Right-Wing Talking Points which make a benefit like Health Insurance Subsidies seem like a complicated scary thing (calling them "Health insurance tax credits may be available.. based on the Federal Poverty Level") when in fact those subsidies are available to persons making as much as 400% of that level (which is about $90,000 for a Family of Four) A fact that the GOP/CA site fails to mention.
They also don't mention that Medicaid under the ACA (in participating states) is now available for those making up to 138 percent of the poverty line (which is about $33,000 for a family of four).
This is compared the Kaiser Foundation who have an embeddable subsidy calculator on their site.
Generally speaking I will now refer to things such as this as Douche-Holery: Providing a "Service" for people that includes "True" information that just happens to be Missing all the Beneficial parts of that information. A Lie by Omission, is still a Lie.
Perfect examples: Heritage.org or quite seriously GOP.com.
Vyan