We Need Single Payer: Have Cake Eat It Too Dept. 0
The Guardian highlights the internal contradiction in the arguments against reforming health care in the United States (emphasis added):
(snip side trip)
But when it comes to the creation of a government-run alternative to private insurance schemes, the fear is not that big government would be too inefficient but that it would be only too effective at undercutting the market. Which is it?
Which it is is simple: The antis are willing to whatever they think sounds good. Facts are irrelevant.
Those who think sound bites, rather than facts, cannot help but contradict themselves, not to mention contradict reality.
They disregard the words of the late Senator Moynihan, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” and create not-facts that sound like facts on the fly.
But no one is really to the facts, just to the bites. And that bites.
