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Fox News reported that the Cleveland Clinic was instituting "massive layoffs" due to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, but when asked about the reports, a Clinic spokesperson told Media Matters, "We're not."
On November 25, The Daily Caller published an article titled, "Top U.S. hospital laying off staff due to Obamacare." On Fox Business' Markets Now, host Connell McShane reported on the "massive layoffs." America's Newsroom host Bill Hemmer claimed that the Cleveland Clinic was going to "shed workers." Later, during the America's News HQ, Fox reporter Chris Stirewalt claimed that the layoffs "rocked the community there in northeastern Ohio."
But there's one problem: the Cleveland Clinic is not laying off any employees. Eileen Sheil, Cleveland Clinic's Executive Director of Corporate Communications, said in an e-mail to Media Matters, "There have been several mis-reports and they keep mentioning that we're laying off 3,000 employees. We're not." Sheil explained that Cleveland Clinic is offering voluntary retirement to 3,000 eligible employees and that the Clinic is also "working on many initiatives to lower costs, drive efficiencies, reduce duplication of services across our system and provide quality care to our patients." Sheil continued, "Many of these initiatives do not impact our employees."
Sheil told Media Matters that Fox had been notified of its error and that the Cleveland Clinic requested Fox's future reporting on the issue more accurately present the Clinic's plans. According to a Media Matters search, Fox had not corrected its mistake by the time of publication.
This is what Eileen Sheil, Cleveland Clinic's Executive Director of Corporate Communications ACTUALLY thinks about the ACA:
We believe reform is necessary because the current state is unsustainable. The ACA is a step toward that change and we believe more changes will come/evolve as there are still many uncertainties. Hospitals must be responsible and do what we can to prepare and support the law.
Yeah, but reporting THAT, and correcting their misreporting, would not exactly fit Fox New's business model of constantly smearing Democrats and reporting bullshit now would it?
Slightly off topic - but I just read the star tribune tribute to the war on Christmas - and was laughing about this paragraph
ReplyDelete"There was a long list of “guidelines” for her visit. No “personalized” signatures. No blankets or chairs. No tampering with wristbands. No leaving the line. No photos. (99% of her supporters would be missing due to "no chairs")
The only pictures allowed would be the ones taken by Palin’s photographer, which people could then buy for $15.99 and $29.99, you know, in the true spirit of the season."
Then I saw a video of the President talking about jobs in LA - and I noticed everyone in the room appeared to have their cameras aimed at the President.
Palin never ceases to create one rule for herself and one for the rest of the USA - she is such a grifter - truly sad to see people pouring out their heart, soul and money again and again in the weird belief that Palin has a heart & soul when all she wants is their money.
It really burns me that Fox can engage in sedition under the guise of a news organization. They gin up anti-government sentiment among the misguided folks of ordinary means who cannot see their agenda is the establishment of a theocratic (better to keep control) plutocracy.
ReplyDeleteWell here's a load of crazy for ya!
ReplyDeleteGun lobbyist claims guns were in the Bible and God is ‘judging’ unarmed Americans
Gun Owners of America Executive Director Larry Pratt recently warned unarmed Americans that he had found firearms in the Bible, and that was proof that God was “judging” unarmed Americans and “blessing” the gun owners.
In video obtained by Right Wing Watch of Pratt speaking to at an Oklahoma Second Amendment Association breakfast sponsored by the Tulsa 912 Project earlier this month, he argued that gun control laws were a way that “we will know we are under God’s judgement.”
He pointed to a story in the Book of Samuel, where only two men in Israel had a sword “as a result of their sinfulness.”
“Finally in his mercy, God enables them to win in a battle and rearm,” Pratt explained. “But that must have been one nasty battle, to go into battle with with only two guys with a gun! And everybody else empty handed. So, I would submit that we should not go into battle empty handed.”
“But the only way to avoid that is to be on our knees and to be asking for God’s pleasure,” he added. “If the country comes back to the Lord — as he told Solomon in that great prayer — then he will repent of what he’s done to the country, he will heal the land, restore it and put his blessing upon it.”
more insanity here:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/26/gun-lobbyist-claims-guns-were-in-the-bible-and-god-is-judging-unarmed-americans/
And this guy is in charge of the NRA, Sarah's buddies, also too.
GREAT NEWS!
ReplyDeleteCBS News confirmed on Monday that correspondent Lara Logan and producer Max McClellan had been effectively suspended from 60 Minutes after a discredited report on Benghazi that the network was later forced to retract.
“I have asked Lara Logan, who has distinguished herself and has put herself in harm’s way many times in the course of covering stories for us, to take a leave of absence, which she has agreed to do,” CBS News Chairman wrote in an internal memo obtained by The Huffington Post. “I have asked the same of producer Max McClellan, who also has a distinguished career at CBS News.”
An internal CBS review of the Oct. 27 60 Minutes report also found that “Lara Logan and her producing team were looking for a different angle to the story of the Benghazi attack. They believed they found it in the story of Dylan Davies, written under the pseudonym, ‘Morgan Jones’.”
Logan was later forced to apologize and issue a partial retraction after reports showed that her source, security contractor Davies, was not at the U.S. mission in Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2011 terrorist attack as he had claimed.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/26/lara-logan-and-60-minutes-producer-put-on-leave-after-discredited-benghazi-report/
And more nasty shenanigans are on the horizon with healthcare...They used sex paranoia and misogyny to create a chance for the Supreme Court to give your boss an unbelievable amount of power over your private life and health care choices. Make no mistake about that.
ReplyDeleteThe Hobby Lobby Lawsuit Is A Trojan Horse
You have to hand to right wing pundits. They kick ass at the bait-and-switch, particularly with their own people. They knew that throwing a major fit over the contraception mandate, no matter how much it’s dressed up in “religious freedom” as an excuse, would be understood by their followers as an attack on stupid sluts looking for a handout who just need to keep their legs closed. And that their people would not think one whit further about the implications of allowing your employer to tailor your compensation for your labor to his religious beliefs. But the Hobby Lobby case that’s going in front of the Supreme Court will not be argued on the grounds of whether or not stupid sluts need to keep their legs closed. It’s going to be argued on the grounds that a business can have a “religion”—which can contain any beliefs they want—and that they have wide berth to use that “religion” to discriminate against their employees. Maybe it will be limited to compensation, or maybe it will be bigger than that. After all, if they’re allowed to withhold benefits because they disapprove of your private life, then what else will they be able to do? Refuse to hire women at all?
Even if the court makes a narrow decision, limiting your boss’s power to saying “religion!” and being able to withhold benefits you’ve earned because of it, that’s a catastrophe. Jill Filipovic kicked it off on Twitter...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/26/the-hobby-lobby-lawsuit-is-a-trojan-horse/
ReplyDeleteHere is a paragraph from an email we received from Toby Cosgrove about the upcoming layoffs. I capitalized one sentence to show what he said and you guy's can come to your own conclusion from that sentence:
"Because wages and benefits make up 60 percent of our expenses, we know we cannot achieve our budget goals through our cost repositioning efforts alone. Therefore, we will have to reduce the size of our workforce. WE ARE HOPEFUL SOME OF THIS REDUCTION WILL OCCUR THROUGH A VOLUNTARY EARLY RETIREMENT. We do not know the specifics, but we also anticipate a reduction in workforce in January 2014".
So should I believe some random Communications employee or Toby Cosgrove who runs the Cleveland Clinic? Or i'm thinking that they planned this all along and will play the usual business blame game.