Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, in a snit because Joe Lieberman won’t sign off on Harry Reid’s latest ”reform” boondoggle, accuses the Connecticut Senator of wanting to kill people for political revenge:
At this point, Lieberman seems primarily motivated by torturing liberals. That is to say, he seems willing to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in order to settle an old electoral score.
Klein, you may recall, recently won the coveted dumbest reform post award. And his post on Lieberman, in addition to being utterly irresponsible, continues his unbroken string of clueless effusions on health reform.
The basis for his claim that Lieberman wants to kill people is a long-ago-debunked study, published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), which claimed that 18,000 people die each year from lack of insurance.
The reality is that there is no real evidence that lack of insurance has any effect on mortality rates. Michael Cannon, who also takes exception to Klein’s offensive post, points out the following:
Richard Kronick, a professor of family and preventive medicine at U.C.-San Diego … performed the largest-ever study on the health effects of being uninsured and concludes that the IOM estimate ‘is almost certainly incorrect.’
Kronick is by no means a member of the VRWC. In fact, he was a Clinton policy adviser. Nonetheless, he concluded that universal insurance would have little effect on the number of deaths in the U.S.
So, Klein has used his platform at one of the nation’s best-known news outlets to produce a slanderous post based on a phony study. This, my friends, is why the birdcage liners are going out of business.
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