President Obama does not know what he is talking about on health care. During last night’s press conference, he both accused physicians of performing unnecessary surgery because of the money—which if true, his reforms wouldn’t fix—and exhibited a profound cluelessness about how health insurance works today in his infamous red pill/blue pill comment. I unpack it all over at Secondhand Smoke .
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