Where's the Fact Check Czar When You Need Him?

President Obama is Wrong About Insurance Costs - WSJ.com: "Speaking of health-care distortions, as President Obama likes to do, consider his assertion to Congress that 'buying insurance on your own costs you three times as much as the coverage you get from your employer.' He liked that one so much that he repeated it over the weekend in Minneapolis, this time as a swipe at 'the marketplace.'

The media's 'fact-check' brigade hasn't noticed, but this is simply false. The Congressional Budget Office expects premiums for employer-sponsored coverage to cost about $5,000 for singles and $13,000 for families this year on average. 'Premiums for policies purchased in the individual market,' adds CBO, 'are much lower about one-third lower for single coverage and half that level for family policies.'"

The President continues to cite bogus "facts and figures" to support his health care. This one is so obvious. Of course individual coverage is cheaper, because INDIVIDUALS are scrutinizing the costs and the benefits, because it is THEIR money. We need to harness the power of millions of American consumers, scrutinizing their health care costs, to bring down the cost of health care. This is the essence of every conservative proposal for health care insurance reform. Virtually every leftist proposal undermines the power of the consumer to bring control to health care costs. That's why no matter how any of the leftist health bills are scored today, all of them promise runaway health care spending for the future.