I’ve never understood this reaction. Well, that’s a lie – I understand it. It’s what your type trots out whenever the facts disagree with you. Those facts can’t be real! Someone I disagree with PAID for them to be published!

By your logic, any argument for government-run health care that uses numbers provided by the government cannot be accepted.

Either show proof that their numbers are wrong, or just accept reality. I know it’s tough for left-wingers, but give it a try. It’s refreshing.

…what Medicare pays is what it costs an efficiently run hospital…

I could believe that it pays the marginal costs, leaving the rest of us to pick up the fixed costs. Otherwise nobody would accept Medicare patients.