Ann Coulter: Liberal Lies About National Health Care

Best-selling author and columnist Ann Coulter is launching a series of columns exposing "Liberal Lies About National Health Care."

The first one is how Obama and the Democrats are trying to punish insurance companies by pushing health care reform. (Forget the fact that many prominent Democrats are on the payroll of insurance companies and their lobbying groups.)

Coulter says the best way to punish insurance companies is force them compete for customers across the U.S. instead of the current system of state-by-state monopolies.

From her column:

U.S. health insurance companies are often imperious, unresponsive consumer hellholes because they're a partial monopoly, protected from competition by government regulation. In some states, one big insurer will control 80 percent of the market. (Guess which party these big insurance companies favor? Big companies love big government.)

Liberals think they can improve the problem of a partial monopoly by turning it into a total monopoly. That's what single-payer health care is: "Single payer" means "single provider."

It's the famous liberal two-step: First screw something up, then claim that it's screwed up because there's not enough government oversight (it's the free market run wild!), and then step in and really screw it up in the name of "reform."

You could fix 90 percent of the problems with health insurance by ending the federal law allowing states to ban health insurance sales across state lines. But when John McCain called for ending the ban during the 2008 presidential campaign, he was attacked by Joe Biden -- another illustration of the ironclad Ann Coulter rule that the worst Republicans are still better than allegedly "conservative" Democrats.

Read the full column at Townhall.com