The (continuing) continuing uselessness of Ceci Connolly and the Washington Post
October 14, 2009 10:23 am ET by Jamison Foser
Another day, another Washington Post article by Ceci Connolly about the insurance industry's attack on health care reform. This time, Connolly does make passing mention of one of the significant flaws in the industry-commissioned "report" that Connolly has now written three articles about. Buried in the 19th paragraph, Connolly notes:
As the report has come under fire, PricewaterhouseCoopers has distanced itself somewhat from it. The firm said Monday that AHIP had instructed it to focus on only some features of the bill, while not taking into account other major features such as the effect of subsidies for those buying insurance.
But still no mention of the fact that the report was based on assumptions PricewaterhouseCoopers acknowledged are unlikely to come true.
Maybe if Connolly writes three more articles, she'll get around to mentioning that.
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If she had done that, she would have learned how dishonest this report was, and then would have let her readers know. That would have been the honest thing to do.
But then she likely wouldn't have gotten called back to guest on FoxNewsSunday any more.
That in itself is a pretty biased way to prepare a report, ignoring the cost saving implications and focusing on the cost increasing implications, but they disclosed the bias right up front. They haven't "admitted" that their report was basically crap (another common theme in liberal threads these days about the report), and they haven't "distanced" themselves from it either, since they already noted the bias on the first page.
Know what you speak of good people!