Early Thursday morning, New York Magazine published an online item which claimed that “rape is a pre-existing condition” under the healthcare bill which has passed in the House. As Reason.com noted, “None of this is true. Like, not even a little bit.”
That appears not to be the point, though. The point of engaging in such irresponsibility appears to have been to get it out there so that at least some people who never learn about the “correction” and end up believing the original false claims. In other words, it’s shamelessly produced fake news.
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