Health Care Myths from Stumbling on Truth

Worth the read and then some:

Will Rogers famously said, "It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so."[1] So it is with the health care debate in this country. Quite a few "facts" offered to the public as truth are simply wrong and often intentionally misleading. It seems clear that no truly productive solution will emerge when these false facts represent our common starting point. So, this essay takes on the modest task of simply disabusing its readers of some untrue notions about health care.

I do not take on the harder task of prescribing how we should (and if we should) reform health care, though I offer a few thoughts. Important work must be done here by those who understand, far better than I, the details of health care provision. However, no details are necessary for this essay, and no animals (though perhaps some egos) were harmed in its creation. The fallacies I present are basic and it takes only a rational economic framework to expose them

There are large groups of people in this country who want socialized medicine and they sense that the stars are aligning, and now is their time to succeed. They rarely call it socialized medicine, but instead "single payer health care" or "universal coverage" or something that their public relations people have told them sounds better. Whatever they call it, they believe (or pretend to believe) a lot of wrong‑headed things, and they must be stopped. Step one is understanding how and why they are wrong. Step two is kicking their asses back to Cuba where they can get in line with Michael Moore for their free gastric bypasses.

Finally, please read my standard disclosure (though it's more designed for something that might be construed as financial advice, it can't hurt) and my admission of non-originality.[i],[ii]

Its amazing how the left and the media repeat a lie enough that it becomes accepted a conventional wisdom. Say the big lie enough and even if you lose the short term debate you can still win, this article goes a long way to debunking many of the sacred cows of the left, like I said worth the read.