Another Inflated Number

Since HR 3200 is the Holy Grail of progressivism, it's largely predicated on the false premise that there are 47,000,000 Americans that are uninsured. As I noted in a previous article, once you whittle down the numbers, you begin to see that it's more like 8,4000,000.

Now the Obama administration's science advisers, the people headed by John P. Holdren who co-wrote Ecoscience, is making the wild claim that there could be up to 90,000 deaths as a result of H1N1.

However, it seems that the CDC doesn't quite agree.

Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a C-SPAN interview taped Wednesday:

"Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change."

So why the inflated numbers from the WH?

Simple. The contentious HR 3200 is suffering from unpopularity because Americans are not as stupid as state run media and the Obama administration think. What better way to reinforce their premise by making a wild assertion, such as dire predictions of death from the Swine Flue?