[Ads-l] "Risk" vs. "at risk of"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Sounds like normal headline language to me.

JL

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> > On Apr 22, 2017, at 11:31 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
> >
> > NY TIMES: “Millions Risk Losing Health Insurance in Republican Plan,
> Analysts Say”.  According to a DLCC email solicitation.
> >
> >
> > Shouldn't that be "Millions at risk of losing health insurance"?
> >
> >
> > Joel
>
> Maybe the headline writer is thinking specifically about those millions
> who currently have care under the ACA and voted Republican anyway, not the
> millions who didn’t and are thus at risk of losing their health care
> without having risked doing so.
>
> LH
>
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