OK, here we go: the tendentious statistics brigade, underwritten by an Ivy-league university:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.
Oh my God! One every twelve minutes! What a tragedy. Let me empty my wallet and please, Mr. Obama, sir, just take over my entire life, beginning with all the hospitals and medical clinics. We just cannot take care of ourselves any more. You do it for us.
What a crock. “Analysis”? Give me a break.
Harvard University is overall an intellectual whorehouse. Too many of its graduates (like Barack Obama) have learned to squeeze the truth, bend it, and perform other unnatural acts on it. One perhaps can justify an adversarial approach to truth in a courtroom. That’s a debate we can have sometime later—but such a nihilistic mindset cannot be tolerated within an academic setting.
“Oh my God! One [dead] every twelve minutes! What a tragedy. Let me empty my wallet….”
Ah, quintessential Kimball, wise and compassionate.
1. David Thomson: “Harvard University is overall an intellectual whorehouse.”
And – voila! – the quintessential Kimball acolyte.
We saw the same thing here in Illinois. Our (in)famous Governor Rod Blagojevich promoted a NEEDED health package for all war veterans. Tens of Thousands of Illinois Vets were without needed coverage, or so we were told.
Huge rollout of the program. Lots of advertising. Even state office holders went on the road to sign up veterans for the program.
Voters and the media asked Blago how many vets signed up. “We’re trying to compile the data.” was his response.
Only after his reelection, did he finally release the details. Of the 10,000 NEEDY veterans that were “desparate” for coverage, exactly 14 people signed up!
State Senator Obama drank from the same Kool Aid bottle, as he bought into the numbers and supported the Vet Care bill.
Don’t always believe the numbers. It’s a lesson that Obama has yet to learn.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year — one every 12 minutes — in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.
Don’t ya just love that qualifier — “in large part.”
A Roger Kimball fan.
“Don’t ya just love that qualifier — “in large part.”
Don’t you also love that qualifier—”I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky”? Bill Clinton later argued that oral sex was not real sex! Such deceptive rhetoric is normally taught in the Ivy League law schools. You cannot trust these people. They have learned to put the knife in your back by hiding the truth somewhere in the third chapter, fifth paragraph, and the tenth sentence. Bill Clinton graduated from Yale Law and Barack Obama from Harvard Law. What more do you need to know? Only a fool takes for granted the word of any Ivy League law graduate. Never forget what they have learned from their professors. Deceitfulness is second nature to them.
“Even though I do not believe we can extend coverage to those who are here illegally, I also don’t simply believe we can simply ignore the fact that our immigration system is broken,” Mr. Obama said Wednesday evening in a speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute. “That’s why I strongly support making sure folks who are here legally have access to affordable, quality health insurance under this plan, just like everybody else.
Mr. Obama added, “If anything, this debate underscores the necessity of passing comprehensive immigration reform and resolving the issue of 12 million undocumented people living and working in this country once and for all.”
It’s a power grab, pure and simple. That’s why Obama wants no discussion and is so anxious to make it a government-run program.
Nearly 45,000 people? This is one of those claims to which the proper reply is, “Name three”.
Those interested in a debunking of the death from lack of health insurance claim should take a look at John Goodman at the Health Affairs blog, http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/09/21/does-lack-of-insurance-cause-premature-death/
In general, health policy has become an ideological battle and truth, along with the search for it, has been an unfortunate casualty.