Do They Think We Are All Stupid?

I mentioned the New Jersey gubernatorial race in this post yesterday.

As part of his assault on his Republican opponent, Chris Christie, Jon Corzinne's campaign has been running non-stop ads, courtesy of Corzinne's Goldman-sourced personal fortune, attacking Christie for allowing insurance companies to "drop mammogram" coverage.

The entire thrust of these ads are that insurance companies wouldn't cover anything unless the government mandated that they do so.

Does Corzinne think we are all stupid? And, by extension, do the Washington Democrats, as well?

I guess they must, because their argument is so fallacious and obviously wrong that it caused me to think of who would believe it?

Of course, the truth is that, in a mandate-free, more competitively-governed health insurance market, you could choose exactly the coverage you wanted, and pay for that. No less, and certainly no more.

No company "drops" unmandated coverage. It's not that simple. But by mandating something, politicians then scare unsophisticated voters into believing that any candidate who is against mandates must be "for" dropping said coverage.

I'm guessing Corzinne and, by extension, Wonderboy and his minions in the Congress, are aiming at the least-sophisticated voters. The ones already on welfare or getting government subsidies of one type or another.

Because anyone who buys, say, auto insurance, knows you can elect, at some point, when the value of your car is sufficiently low, to not pay for collision damage coverage.

Why anyone would think that you should not be able, in a competitive insurance market, to buy what you want, and not what you don't, is beyond me.

But the way Corzinne's ads keep hammering away on this falsehood, it's evident he has no respect for the intelligence of New Jersey voters.