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Shocker: Fox News Gets it Wrong on Healthcare Website Costs

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Wrong is an understatement.

From Media Matters

On the October 25 edition of Fox’s America’s Newsroom, host Hemmer asked whether HealthCare.gov, the website established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to connect Americans with health insurance exchanges, would be “the first billion-dollar website?” Hemmer then told contributor Katie Pavlich, “Government keeps throwing money after problems which shows you how government gets fat and very, very expensive,” before concluding, “These people have lost their minds.” The on-screen text read, “Rpt: Final Obamacare Website Costs Could Top $1 Billion.”

In reality, the government has spent approximately $170 million on the website so far with roughly $300 million budgeted for it according to The Washington Post.

Where did Fox News get their wildly-inaccurate information?

Newsmax, which is more or less an older and slightly better dressed version of The Daily Caller.