>>And worse, 99.9% of what is being told is absolute nonsense, if not, straightout lies to scare voters to the benefit of special interest groups.

There is a professor right now asserting that UK doctors are deliberately killing patients via the "Liverpool Care Pathway" that is supposed to be a policy for the management of terminally ill patients. Google it- lots of sensational press, though the proposition relies on a monumental conspiracy that seems absurd once you dissect it. More recently another professor says doctors are heartless for voting this week via the BMA that assisted suicide is "morally repugnant". Presumably doctors are killing people with one hand while refusing to do so with the other.

Lesson is that when it comes to healthcare, practically any yarn can be spun and some people will believe it.

Not one for anecdote, but right at the start of Obama's term I saw an"expert" Fox panelist asserting that Europeans may have free healthcare and cheap public transport, but they can't afford new clothes. Nodding all around in response to this learned statement. LOL,