-By Warner Todd Huston
Froma Harrop may have once been called Heartland Institute’s “favorite lefty” journalist, but lefty she is and her use of a lopsided New York Times poll to urge President Obama to “act fast” on a government healthcare policy is a perfect example of that.
With her June 23 article, Harrop was frustrated that Obama was not “stepping on the gas” to institute publicly funded healthcare and she wondered why he is dragging his feet when “85 percent of Americans want ‘fundamental changes’ in American healthcare.” This factoid she gleans from a very flawed NYT poll that is so badly skewed to the left that it is amazing anyone takes it seriously.
Harrop makes no bones about the fact that she wants a nationalized healthcare policy to be forced on the nation and she also doesn’t think that anyone needs to listen to Republicans, effectively disenfranchising the roughly half of the American electorate that votes that way. Amazingly, Harrop is supposed to be a “financial reporter,” yet she still wants this disastrously expensive, jobs killing, cost spiraling sort of plan anyway. This doesn’t say much about her grasp of economics.
Nonetheless, Harrop says it should be full speed ahead.
Flawed NYT Poll Used to Urge Obama’s Takeover of Healthcare”