CBS Cheers Anniversary of ObamaCare’s Signing; Uses WH Stats Passed Off as ‘Our Research Department’

Curtis Houck | March 23, 2015
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The CBS Evening News enthusiastically took to promoting ObamaCare in the form of a brief on its Monday night broadcast, hailing the fifth anniversary of President Obama signing the massive legislation into law. Anchor Scott Pelley began by reminding viewers that “[i]t was five years ago today that President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act known as ObamaCare.” 

Continuing the White House spin, Pelley rattled off a few statistics regarding the health care law that he claimed were from “[o]ur research department” with the first being that “more than 16 million Americans have health insurance who didn't have it before.”