Health Care BS

Arguably, the most consistently successful stratagem ever devised by the Democrats is their perennial campaign to frighten the elderly into voting for them by claiming that Republicans want to do away with Social Security.

Every election, with the grim inevitability of Greek tragedy, “the party of Jefferson� deploys this canard. And it has been so successful that the Dems have long sought an equally effective scare tactic to use on younger voters.

It’s clear that the Obama campaign believes it has found such a ploy in its claim that John McCain wants to take away your employer-based health insurance. We heard this from Joe Biden in the recent VP debate:

You’re going to have to pay—replace a $12,000 plan, because 20 million of you are going to be dropped.

This charge, like so many of the talking points that emerge from the Obama campaign, is pure fiction. Yet Obama himself has begun including the following line in every stump speech:

Under the McCain plan, at least 20 million Americans will lose the insurance they rely on from their workplace.

There have, of course, been estimates that as many as 21 million people might choose (over the next decade) to buy insurance in the revitalized non-group market that McCain’s regulatory reforms would create.

There are, however, no credible data in any serious study supporting the claim that millions of people would suddenly be “dropped� from their employer-based health insurance. 

Nonetheless, we’re going to continue to hear this whopper from Obama and his surrogates. They will repeat it over and over again. Why? Because they think it will work, and the truth simply doesn’t matter to them.

And these are the people who call McCain a liar.