Dick Morris Schools David Axelrod for Weekend Putdown

Here is video of Dick Morris on with Sean Hannity last night where he slapped down Obama Chief adviser David Axelrod. Morris said over the weekend, Axelrod was asked about Dick Morris's contention that if you add 47 million people (or 30 million or whatever the White House number is today) to the Health Care system all at once, you will have a shortage of doctors.

Dick Morris said he wanted to respond to his "former employee" David Axelrod. He said:

"David, it's not a matter of Med School - it's Elementary School. That's all you need to understand that if you expand the patient base by 50 million new patients you need some new doctors." . . . (VIDEO)

Morris isn’t necessarily right.

He assumes that everybody who doesn’t have medical insurance never goes to the doctor.

And he assumes that these same people, if they HAD medical insurance, would now start going to the doctor.

But in fact, most of these people don’t have insurance because either they have enough money to pay their own way, or they have no need for doctors.

Those in the 1st group are already going to the doctors, and paying them just like we all go to the grocery store and pay even though we don’t have grocery insurance.

Those in the 2nd group don’t go now because they have no medical problems, and won’t go simply because they are forced into an insurance program.

The reason to bring up the “shortage of doctors” is not to argue that it is fact.

The reason is to expose the lies of the left. It is the LEFT which says that millions of people are being denied necessary medical care, simply because they don’t have insurance.

That is the real lie. So the argument is: If you really believe that 47 million people are being denied medical care, and your bill will give them that medical care, there won’t be enough doctors to treat them, which will cause widespread shortages and long waits and rationing.

When the leftie argues with you, like Axlerod appears to hear, the response is then to note that the leftie obviously understands that they are lying about the need for more medical insurance, because it is obvious they understand that everybody is already seeing doctors today, since they don’t believe there will be new people seeing doctors under their plan.

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