Wow! Did you see those banner headlines in the NY Times and elsewhere breathlessly announcing that a Judge yesterday upheld the Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act?
Oh, right. Neither did I, because there were none. We political junkies here on the blogs know that the Judge found that:
not buying insurance was an active choice that had clear effects on the marketplace by burdening other payers with the cost of uncompensated medical care.
“Because of this cost-shifting effect, the individual decision to forgo health insurance, when considered in the aggregate, leads to substantially higher insurance premiums for those other individuals who do obtain coverage.”
But it's good bet that few others know about it.
Steve Benen has been all over this issue, contrasting the tabloid-style, excited coverage given to the Judges ruling against the ACA with the back pages or non-existent coverage when the ACA is upheld.
For example, the ultra-liberal Washington Post (home to noted hippies Charles Krauthammer, Charles Lane and Michael Gerson) had nothing, nada, zero about this.
Put this into your lengthening file of things to prove that the media is definitely not liberal.