The Los Angeles Times is the latest mainstream news outlet to report the facts about the impact of the government takeover of the health insurance/health care industry — rather than simply hyping the rhetoric that has now been proven false.

But for the first time since the Oct. 1 launch, criticism of the administration moved well beyond the website’s technical troubles. Hundreds of thousands of people who buy insurance on the individual market have received notices that their policies will be canceled or amended — and their premiums on new policies could rise.

This is reporting that could have been done — and should have been done — prior to the bill’s passage. 

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