 My eyes are getting tired from all this rolling.
  My eyes are getting tired from all this rolling.
FULL QUESTION
 The Internal Revenue Service issued a report in which it estimated  that under Obamacare, the least expensive health insurance plan  available to a family in 2016 would cost $20,000 annually, according to  CNSNews.com.
 Is this a true report?
 
FULL ANSWER
 This question — and several more from readers — was prompted by an  article published by the Cybercast News Service (an “alternative” news  site run by the conservative Media Research Center) with the headline: “
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family.” 
But the IRS made no such declaration about the future cost of health insurance plans...
the headline of the Cybercast News Service report simply jumps to the  conclusion that the IRS said that the “Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be  $20,000 Per Family,” when there was no indication that that was the  case. An 
opinion piece published  on LifeNews.com made the same leap, claiming that “the IRS … has  finally released a cost analysis based on ObamaCare regulations showing  that the cheapest healthcare plan in 2016 will cost average American  families of four or five members $20,000 per year for the so-called  ‘bronze plan.’ ” 
For one thing, the example in the proposed regulations uses the word  “average,” which means that the “cheapest” plan could, in fact, be lower  than $20,000. But more important, the regulations weren’t a “cost  analysis” at all. A spokesperson for the Treasury Department confirmed  to FactCheck.org in an email that the IRS wasn’t making any declarations  or projections about what prices will be.
 
“[Twenty thousand dollars] is a round number used by IRS for a  hypothetical example,” the official wrote. “It is not an estimate of  premiums for a bronze plan for a family of five in 2016.”
http://www.factcheck.org/2013/03/obamacare-to-cost-20000-a-family/