Obamacare Overhead Study a Trojan Horse

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Spectator: Obamacare Overhead Study a Trojan Horse

Beware of single-payer shills bearing gifts.

 

By David Catron – 6.1.15

During the past few days the legacy media and the Internet have been flooded with news articles, editorials, and blog posts with titles like “Overhead costs exploding under ObamaCare.” This all-too-predictable phenomenon has been breathlessly reported by outlets as different in their ideological perspectives as the Wall Street Journal and the Daily Kos. Sadly, when liberal and conservative publications are equally enthusiastic about breaking a story, it usually means the latter have been duped into promoting progressive propaganda. This case is no exception. The basis for these reports is a “study” produced by a couple of notorious lefty data diddlers.

 

The con artists in question are Doctors David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler, and their “analysis” can be found at the Health Affairs blog. This pair co-founded Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), whose mission is to get the U.S. on a single-payer health care system, and their research is uniformly biased against the free market