PolitFacts is Liar of the Year
Image via WikipediaCalling Obamacare a government takeover of health care is the "lie of the year," according to the self-proclaimed oracle of all things true and untrue in the political debate. That outrageous proclamation from PolitiFact shows that its editors need a Truth-O-Meter of their own.There is more.
Obamacare is a uniquely American government takeover of health care. Its 2,801 pages of legislation and insidious regulatory structure give the Secretary of Health and Human Services almost unlimited authority to rule over every corner of our health sector.
The legislation that passed in March creates the scaffolding for the government-controlled structure the administration is busily constructing.
Because the law doesn't call for an immediate nationalization of hospitals or include the "public option" that liberals wanted, PolitiFact claims that it isn't a government takeover. Even worse, it says Obamacare "relies largely on the free market" to achieve health reform.
PolitiFact, like so many other political elites, disregards the legitimate fears of millions of Americans who spontaneously rose up against Obamacare in town hall meetings, marches, and voting booths. Here are 10 reasons why they are right that it is a government takeover of health care:
1. For the first time in our nation's history, the government will order citizens to spend our private money on a private product -- health insurance -- and will penalize us if we refuse.
2. Any employer with more than 50 employees will be told it must provide government-decreed health insurance to its workers -- or face financial penalties.
3. Government has the authority to the destroy the private insurance market by preventing insurers from earning a reasonable return. If companies charge "unreasonable" premiums, as determined by Health Sec. Kathleen Sebelius, she can block them from participating in a huge sector of the market -- as she already has threatened to do. Michael Barone calls this "gangster government."
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PolitiFacts was being deceitful with its formulation of what constituted a government take over. Actually Obamacare was worse than government ownership because it did not have to pay for taking control of the business decisions of the enterprises that make up the health care industry. It can control those business decisions by decree. That is actually worse than socialism.
What should be clear is that the free market no longer applies to certain decisions in the health care business.
Opinion Journal has more in the challenge to Politifacts.
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