Democrats don't
always hate anecdotes -- they love them when used by Obama and Hillary Clinton
--... Irked at the gall of Republicans in using the Democrats' votes for health care
against them, liberals have discovered a plot that is even more sinister: the
GOP is using "anecdotes" (i.e., the stories of people who have been
hurt by the measure) in an effort to take the Left down.
By
"anecdotes" they mean stories like the those of Edie Littlefield Sundby, the stage-four cancer patient who
can't keep her old team of physicians; the parents who can't take children to
the hospitals at which they were formerly treated; the people having trouble
paying their premiums; or the story related in the Wall Street Journal on Monday by Stephen
Blackwood, whose mother, also suffering from a rare form of cancer, can no
longer get access to the medicines that have kept her alive.
This isn't
quite what the Left had expected. Last year, Jonathan Chait mocked the
frustrated quest of the Right for Obamacare victims, as the only ones likely
were selfish rich people, and "neither the medical specialist nor the
hospital executive nor the upper-income taxpayer quite offer the politically
sympathetic face of the Everyman struggling under Obama's socialist boot.".....To Read More.....
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