Health Care BS

In addition to their afinity for phony surveys and fudged statistics, advocates of government-run health care are also fond of gratuitous assertions wholly unsupported by objective data. A classic example can be found in this AP article about child abuse and neglect:

The neglect cases include situations in which medical professionals conclude that a child got sick or didn’t correctly develop because parents didn’t get recommended medical care.

That seems pretty predictable. Parents who don’t bother to feed their children are not likely to take them to the doctor when they should. But the parents aren’t actually responsible, according one child abuse expert interviewed by AP:

 David Finkelhor said the cases might in part reflect families who don’t have adequate health insurance.

And what information does Mr. Finkelhor have on which to base this assertion? Well, none, actually. Even the reporters at AP, who normally lend a sympathetic ear to such claims, were queasy about that statement. So they asked the people who produced the study:

The study’s authors said they don’t have information to verify that theory.

This one of the (many) reasons it is so difficult to take universal health care advocates seriously. Instead of making an honest case for their position, they routinely lie their asses off make statements unsupported by the objective data.