If the data don\’t support your propaganda, don\’t report the data.
That looks like something out of the USSR, or Venezuelan, or Cuban playbook, doesn\’t it? Well, how about the Obama administration\’s Ministry of Obfuscation?
No, no such Ministry actually exists (I think). but you\’d never know it by what you are about to read in the first three paragraphs of Robert Pear\’s article from yesterday\’s New York Times:
WASHINGTON- The CensusBureau, the authoritative source of healthinsurance data for more than three decades, is changing itsannual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure theeffects of PresidentObama\’s healthcare law in the next report, due this fall, census officialssaid.
Thechanges are intended to improve the accuracy of the survey, beingconducted this month in interviews with tens of thousands ofhouseholds around the country. But the new questions are so differentthat the findings will not be comparable, the officials said.
Aninternal Census Bureau document said that the new questionnaireincluded a “total revision to health insurance questions” and, ina test last year, produced lower estimates of the uninsured. Thus,officials said, it will be difficult to say how much of any change isattributable to the Affordable Care Act and how much to the use of anew survey instrument.
How wonderfully convenient….if you don\’t want people to know how ObamaCare is really doing, that is. See, all you have to do is get the Census Bureau to make major changes in its survey, so that this year\’s data will not be comparable to any other year\’s.
Now the Obama administration can say anything it wants about how ObamaCare is doing, and the Census Bureau will provide no way to check. We\’ll just have to rely on the administration\’s sterling record of honesty – as exemplified by the “if you like your insurance plan you can keep your insurance plan, period”, “if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor” and “the average family will save $2,500 a year” promises.
If you can\’t see through this, you don\’t want to.
On the other hand, if you don\’t want to, there\’s no hope that you will ever recognize what an unworkable monstrosity ObamaCare is anyway, so I suppose it doesn\’t matter.
Almost three more years of this? God help us.
