Half-Wit WaPo Propagandist Ezra Klein: Obama REALLY Meant to Say You Could Always Get a New Plan

Imagine you write for The Washington Post. And imagine you're a moron. But I repeat myself.

Ezra Klein -- semi-literate co-founder of "Journolist", the Democrat/vintage media mailing list -- routinely finds himself out-debated by the majority of his commenters. His most recent oozing secretion, yet another apologia for the unfolding catastrophe known as Obamacare (yes, I said it, Melissa Harris-Perry) is no exception.

Entitled "Obamacare’s real promise: if you lose your health-care plan, you can get a new one", it is a veritable canker sore of stupidity.

President Obama's critics are right: Obamacare doesn't guarantee that everyone who likes their health insurance can keep it. In some cases, Obamacare is the reason people will lose health insurance they liked.

What Obamacare comes pretty close to guaranteeing, though, is that everyone who needs health insurance, or who wants health insurance, can get it.

It guarantees that if you lose the plan you liked — perhaps because you were fired from your job, or because you left your job to start a new business, or because your income made you ineligible for Medicaid — you'll have a choice of new plans you can purchase, you'll know that no insurer can turn you away, and you'll be able to get financial help if you need it. In states that accept the Medicaid expansion, it guarantees that anyone who makes less than 133 percent of poverty can get fully subsidized insurance.

Equipped with only a prehensile brain, one has to feel sorry for Klein. Indeed, such are his skills that his commenters almost always out-debate him. OldSchoolSaint is one such truth-teller who fires off enough salvos to pound Klein into the next county.

Why stop so abruptly with the truth telling? Yes, you can get another plan but that plan will:

A. likely be more expensive
B. likely prohibit you from seeing your current doctors
C. contain services that are of no value to you
D. exist within a health care environment with a shortage of doctors and hegemony of the federal government over decisions currently made privately between doctors and patients.
E. contribute to exploding federal expenditures and be part of an additional federal program that, like others, is financially unsustainable and ruinous.

...I think Obama Care is a reckless and imbecilic way of accomplishing items A-C above.

Maybe WaPo could offer OldSchoolSaint a writing gig.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.