Health Care BS

Last year I wrote a post suggesting that universal health care advocates are such prisoners of their ideology that facts have little or no meaning for them. Well, Paul Krugman has written a column that pretty much proves my case.

He begins by reciting a couple of anecdotes, including the tall tale that got Hillary in hot water recently. He then goes on to demonstrate that mere facts are incidental to the party line, defending the whopper as follows:

It turns out that while some of the details were slightly off … more important, Mrs. Clinton was making a valid point about the state of health care in this country.

No, she wasn’t making a valid point, and the important details of her story weren’t “slightly off.” They were lies deliberately deployed to paint a wildly inaccurate picture of American health care.

People like Mrs. Clinton and Krugman want to convince the public that the “cruelty and injustice” that allegedly pervade U.S. health care can only be corrected by allowing her to absorb the system into the federal collective:

We need universal health care, so that terrible stories like those of Monique White, Trina Bachtel and the thousands of other Americans who die each year from lack of insurance become a thing of the past.

This absurd statement reiterates Clinton’s whoppers about Bachtel, and it ignores the far more numerous horror stories that routinely fill the media in countries that already have ”universal health care.”

As William Safire pointed out more than a decade ago, Hillary is a congenital liar. And the credibility of Clinton lickspittles like Krugman and others doesn’t rise even to that lofty height.