One of the reasons it’s difficult to trust the “news” media on health care, beyond the obvious fact they they’re in the tank for Obama and his congressional accomplices, is that most reporters don’t seem to grasp the basic facts of the debate.
Sometimes they can’t even handle the arithmetic. A case in point is AP’s analysis of of the “reform” bill that the Dems are cooking up in the Senate. In a piece that reads as if it was written by the DNC, the article’s author tells AP’s readers the following:
Most of the uninsured will be covered, but not all. As many as 24 million people would remain uninsured in 2019 …
Even if one accepts the widely reported figure of 46 million uninsured, and many do not, the fact that 24 million will be left out means that only 22 million will be covered. In other words ”most of the uninsured” will NOT be covered.
The author of the AP article, Ricardo Alonzo-Zaldivar, apparently doesn’t realize that 22 million is less than half of the allegedly uninsured. Put another way, the math skills of this journalist (and apparently his editors) are not equal to those of the average fifth-grader.
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