Something for everyone here: For the base, a heaping helping of media bias to get outrageously outraged about, and for centrists, a somber reminder that ObamaCare isn’t a fait accompli. Even so, I’m mystified as to why they didn’t cite the cold, hard, devastating numbers. They’re obviously trying to leverage bailout fatigue and jitters over spending — the words “government takeover” are repeated no less than three times in 60 seconds — but instead of quoting the trillion-dollar pricetag and deficit projections, they went with gauzy palaver about a GOP alternative that’ll go nowhere in Congress. Seems like a missed opportunity.
Rest assured, though, the feds aren’t going to take away your right to private insurance. They’re just going to make the public plan cheap enough to drive private insurers out of business.
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