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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Stickin' It To The Dispatch Propaganda Machine!


Blogger buddy Dave Girves (see Buster's Links) wrote a great letter to the editor similar to this one, de-bunking another Dispatch attack on Obamacare.  But as is almost always the case, Dave's wasn't published.  This one was, and it's also excellent.  I don't know Dennis Pearl, but I think I like him!
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To the editor:

"Young Men Face Higher Premiums" declared the front-page headline in the Dispatch.  (The focus is on young men because young women benefit from new birth-control and maternity coverage under Obamacare.)  But wait . . . 

Most young men are 18 to 25 years old and eligible for coverage under a parent's or spouse's health care plan, thanks to Obamacare, so we are really talking about 26-to-29-year-old single men.  But wait . . . 

Most men in that age group are eligible for a subsidy under Obamacare, so we are really talking about 26-to-29-year-old single men making more than four times the poverty level.  But wait . . . 

Most men in that income group work for a company that already provides insurance or a for a company that will be required to do so under Obamacare.  So we are only talking about 26-to-29-year-old single men without pre-exisitng conditions who must buy insurance on the exchange.

It turns out that a more accurate headline would have been "Fred Faces Higher Premiums".

Well, I just called "Fred" to ask him how it felt to be the only guy in Ohio who has to pay higher premiums under Obamacare in an apples-to-apples comparison.  He said he didn't mind so much since an anti-Obamacare blogger just paid him $2,000 for an exclusive interview, and he used the money to buy insurance.

Dennis Pearl
Bexley, Ohio

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