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Source Reveals What CNN’s Drew Griffin Left Out of Report About Wisconsin Clinics | Mediaite
"Liberal" CNN did a piece the other day on the difficulties with Affordable Care Act signups in Wisconsin. And while they did a bang-up job of showing the error messages on the website, they did a pretty lousy job of painting the entire picture of what exactly is going on in the Badger state.
Even more galling is that "liberal" CNN's Drew Griffin appears to have intentionally left out those details, rather than just simply not having been privy to them at the time.
The full "liberal" CNN report and transcript are on the link.
"Liberal" CNN did a piece the other day on the difficulties with Affordable Care Act signups in Wisconsin. And while they did a bang-up job of showing the error messages on the website, they did a pretty lousy job of painting the entire picture of what exactly is going on in the Badger state.
On Thursday, CNN Newsroom with Wolf Blitzer aired a report by CNN Investigative Unit reporter Drew Griffin that highlighted the difficulties that some low-income patients at Wisconsin community health clinics are having signing up for Obamacare. Conspicuously absent from that report, however, was any mention of Wisconsin’s refusal to accept Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion and decision to throw tens of thousands out of the current program.
The peg to Griffin’s report is that the clinic’s staff have yet to sign anyone up for health insurance through the Obamacare exchange, mainly as a result of the well-documented difficulties with the healthcare.gov website. In his report, Griffin said, of Progressive Community Health Centers, that “8,000 patients a year come here for almost free health care. And they’ve been doing that for years. That’s why workers here were so excited about the Affordable Care Act. Finally, low-income patients would be able to get health insurance, many for the first time.”
What Griffin left out was that many of those low income patients would be losing their health insurance, as of January 1, because of Governor Scott Walker‘s (R-WI) changes to the state’s Badgercare (Wisconsin’s version of Medicaid) eligibility rules, and that many more would have been eligible for Medicaid if Walker had accepted Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid.
Even more galling is that "liberal" CNN's Drew Griffin appears to have intentionally left out those details, rather than just simply not having been privy to them at the time.
At first blush, this appears to be a simple case of a reporter simply not asking the right questions, but Griffin apparently did ask the right questions, and chose not to report the answers. Progressive Community Health Centers CEO Jenni Sevenich, one of the sources cited in the report, says she did discuss the Medicaid issues with Griffin, but they were not included in the report. “We did discuss that with them,” Sevenich said, “but they didn’t put that part in the segment.”
The full "liberal" CNN report and transcript are on the link.