Byron York of the Washington Examiner slaps PolitiFact with one of the same criticisms brought to bear earlier by Karl of Hot Air's Green Room and yours truly:
The group recently cited as "Lie of the Year" the charge that Obamacare represents "a government takeover of health care." Writes PolitiFact: "As Republicans smelled serious opportunity in the midterm elections, they didn't let facts get in the way of a great punchline."
PolitiFact says the charge is false because it "conjures a European approach where the government owns the hospitals and the doctors are public employees." But that's not even true in much of Europe. And imposing draconian new regulations on the health care industry, creating "exchanges" that tightly control the sale of health coverage, fining people who don't purchase coverage, and dictating to insurance companies what they may and may not charge -- if that's not a government takeover of health care, it's certainly in the ballpark.
Bingo.
Oh, wait. What am I saying?
By any reasonable definition, there's no way that the Democratic plan could be considered a government takeover.
Therefore (logically), Byron York and others of his ilk are unreasonable.
Or something like that.
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