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When trying to steamroll opposition to their government-run health care experiment, Democrats, most recently HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius on Sunday, say 15,000 people lose their health coverage every day. Matt Smith at CNN.com looked into this claim and found that it doesn’t quite prove what the Administration thinks it does.

The claim is based on the number of people losing their jobs, what proportion of them got insurance through their jobs, and then determining how many people lose their health care because they lost their jobs. This leads to problems, because as Smith wrote, “the figure Sebelius cited was based on the rapid growth of unemployment at the depths of the recent recession and is most likely out of date.”

But the real objection is much more fundamental. If people are losing their insurance because they’re losing their jobs, then shouldn’t Washington focus on job creation instead of taking over the health care system? After all, if you’ve lost your job, your lost wages are almost certainly going to be a bigger problem than your lost health insurance. Obama and the Dems have even admitted as much, vowing a “hard pivot” to job creation. Yet Obama just won’t follow through because he’s committed to a far-left agenda that expands Washington’s control. Need proof? He’s still traveling the country campaigning for his government-run health care experiment.