Separating ACA fact from myth

As the health-care exchanges opened across the nation under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, local and national media were full of investigative stories that tried to separate fact from often agenda-fueled fiction.

For instance, the Tampa Bay Times’ popular PolitiFact section listed 16 of the top Obamacare whoppers from both ends of the political spectrum, labeling them either “Pants on Fire” or merely “False.” The refuted fallacies ranged from President Obama’s claim that health-care premiums have “gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years” because of the new law to Sarah Palin’s “death panels” fable and…