Absurd Fact of the Day
From a MoveOn email I received today (emphasis in original):
But Americans can't afford to wait: while the Senate is on vacation, over 400,000 people will lose their health coverage.
Really?
The source is here. Reading the text and the sourcing, it is a great example of how a wild-assed guess can be turned into a "fact" if one buries it in a long enough chain of sourcing. But the really funny part is that the Senate plan does not even begin to be implemented until 2013, and implementation is not complete until something like 2018. These dates will not change whether the legislation is passed before or after the recess, but if a single month is so devastating, one wonders why MoveOn has quietly accepted the 2013 implentation date (not conincidently after the next Presidential election).
Postscript: Number of extra people who will not, no matter what their insurance status, be able to get critical care in the next month: zero.
