December 18, 2012 12:09PM 

# Might the *Washington Post* Be Partial to ObamaCare? 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Here’s a poor, unsuccessful letter I sent to the editor of the *Washington Post*:

> Thirty-two states have issued a stunning vote of no confidence in President Obama’s health care law by refusing to finance and operate the new regulatory bureaucracies (“exchanges”) at its core. This development threatens to delay implementation of the law, at the very least.
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> *Post* readers learned of this once-unimaginable rebuke in an article that gave top billing to those states’ critics \[“[Critics Slam GOP States over Health Exchanges](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/critics-blast-gop-state-lawmakers-for-giving-control-of-insurance-exchanges-to-federal-officials/2012/12/13/a638a4f8-452d-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_story.html),” Dec. 14, A1\]. The article further claimed, “there’s no question that federal officials will wield substantially more power” in those states, when in fact that highly disputed opinion is at the center of the entire debate.
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> This followed an article hailing an Obama administration decision to abandon a measure designed to reduce federal Medicaid spending as a “silver lining” \[“[A Supreme Court Silver Lining?: How Medicaid Dodged the Deficit Debate](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/12/12/a-supreme-court-silver-lining-how-medicaid-dodged-the-deficit-debate/),” Dec. 12\]. The article quoted six sources who supported the administration’s move, but none of the administration’s critics.
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> *Post* readers would be better served by less partial health policy coverage.

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