More on Akin's "Zombie Lie"
Submitted by .Sean on October 23, 2009 - 8:55am
The NY Times' Paul Krugman responds to the Washington Monthly post noted yesterday about Todd Akin's most recent absurd and embarrassing argument to scare seniors.
Steve Benen gets exercised over a new appearance of a zombie lie in the health care debate — the totally false claim that Canadian health care won’t pay for hip replacements for the elderly.
But the hip replacement scam is even worse than Steve realizes. Because who, you might ask, pays for hip replacements in America? The answer: Medicare pays 63.8% of the cost, Medicaid 6.8%. That’s right, the U.S. government pays for 70% of hip replacements in this country.
Aren’t you glad we don’t have evil, Canadian-style government-run health insurance?
