Obama's "Health Insurance Reform Reality Check" Fails the Reality Test

Americans, head for cover. The White House's Reality Check campaign has launched a repeat round of falsehoods and misrepresentations in its war to dismantle private health insurance and replace it with a single-payer, federal-government-run health care monstrosity.

President Barrack Obama's Health Care Czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle's latest email blast (read: spam) invites the reader to watch Vice President Joe Biden offer the White House's version of health care reality as he addresses, "the biggest whopper of all: that our health insurance system works just fine and Americans don't care about reform."

The Vice President needs help

In her email, Ms DeParle goes on to state:

"We're trying something new. You can help the Vice President debunk this myth by uploading your own video on why reform matters to you. This is an opportunity for Americans of all backgrounds and situations to make the case for reform in your own words."

And oh, if you're lacking for your own words, or for logic, reasoning, or otherwise any information at all-regardless of its veracity or relationship to "reality"--with which to construct your "teachable moment" video anthem on "health care insurance reform," Ms DeParle can help.

Get out your thinking cap

"Need some help?" she rhetorically asks. "We also have a new online quiz to help set the record straight about health insurance reform. Find out what's in reform for somebody like you by answering a few questions."

By clicking on the www.WhiteHouse.gov/realitycheck/quiz link that Ms DeParle provides in her email, a reader is directed to the "quiz." The quiz invites the reader to answer 13 pithy questions, such as:

Do you have health insurance?

Are you male or female?

What is you age range?

Do you have children?

Do you think your premiums are rising too fast?

Everyone passes

By answering the questions and clicking on "submit" at the bottom of the "quiz," you get a list of 15 "straight answers" to the 13 questions (huh?). Of course, the responses just happen to be Obama and Democratic talking points about what used to be called "health care reform," before it became more politically expedient for the White House to scapegoat the big, bad health insurance companies.

Interestingly, the quiz "answers" don't change, regardless of how you answer the 13 previous "questions."
Even more interestingly, you don't even have to answer the questions. Just click on "submit" to be directed to the President's immutable list of 15 reasons to dismantle our present health care system and bring in federal "experts" and bureaucrats to fix everything.

Too good to be true?

Oh, the pitch is wonderful. Everyone will have health care, everyone will be happy. Everyone will be healthy.

"Look over the answers," Ms DeParle says, "then tell Vice President Biden what's most important about reform to you."

Right, and they'll get back to you soon with the photo release, when the Obama and Democratic Party broadcast ads featuring your heart-rending testimonial begin coming together later in September.

This is a reality check? Hardly.

The President's latest ploy is reality twisted, bent and prefabricated to a wholly far-left point of view about the needs and nature of health care reform in America.

The true reality

It's doubtful at this point that this kind of blatant and dishonest political posturing can be seen as anything more than an inept case of singing to the choir.

And even more unfortunately for Mr. Obama, his check on reality is badly out of tune with, and very badly drowned out by, the rising voice of American dissent.

The prevailing sentiment in this country is for fair and reasonable health care reform. What the White House continues to fail monumentally to understand is that federal control of health care is entirely unwelcome, and in fact would be completely hated by most Americans.

The growing majority of Americans want a fair, deliberative, nuanced debate in Congress that will examine all possible means of market-based health care reform. Of course, such an approach does not fit either with Democrats' political mentaiity or their 3 a.m.-in-the-morning style of ramming through major legislation.

The President got away with the "pass it while they're sleeping" strategy twice. The majority of Americans will not stand for it a third time, and especially not when it involves something so personal as individual freedom in health care.

Source

email blast, Nancy-Ann DeParle, The White House" ," Help the Vice President debunk this myth"