The health care industry's campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt

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The health care industry's campaign of fear, uncertainty and doubt

Commentary: insurers use front groups and spin doctors to sow concerns about Obamacare

By Wendell Potter

Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of Obamacare, but it marked the seventh anniversary of opposition to the concept underlying health care reform...two years before the first words of legislation were written, and three years before the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, the entrenched health care interests were hard at work creating their strategies to ensure as much as possible that whatever passed would not have an adverse effect on profits.

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This past week, we got a glimpse into how the insurance industry and its political allies will give the “government takeover” campaign a new spin: Obamacare will cause insurance premiums to double in 2015.

Citing “one senior insurance executive who requested anonymity,” The Hill, an inside-the-Beltway publication, predicted last week that “ObamaCare-related premiums will double in some parts of the country.”

There is absolutely no reason to believe this will happen—and good reasons why it won’t, which I’ll explain next week—but facts have little place in most political campaigns. Rest assured, the specter of skyrocketing premiums will be part of a carefully crafted and executed campaign designed to create fear, uncertainty and doubt in the minds of voters next November. Some things never change.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/2014/03/24/14467/health-care-industrys-campaign-fear-uncertainty-and-doubt

Blow By Blow: A Comprehensive Timeline Of The GOP’s 4-Year Battle To Kill Obamacare
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The real goal of all those anti-Obamacare ads
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