Editors at the Washington Examiner take aim at the overwrought response among liberals to the U.S. Senate’s health care reform bill.

When Republicans claim they can’t get a fair shake from news media, they have weeks like this one in mind.

The new Congressional Budget Office report for the Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill has revived a false claim, parroted by many once respectable media outfits, that millions of people (this time 22 million, one million fewer than the House version of the bill) will “lose their insurance.”

An estimate that says $1 trillion more spending will insure only a million more people is obviously fishy. But let’s set that smell-test aside. Let’s also set aside the fact that the CBO arrived at its number by using an imaginary and unrealistic baseline number for what Obamacare was likely to insure years from now. Even without those two glaring problems, there remains the irreducible fact that CBO does not claim that anywhere near 22 million will “lose their insurance.” It has said only that its best guess is that fewer people will obtain insurance than if Obamacare were to remain the law.

More galling yet is the claim that the Senate’s modest proposals will “kill” nearly 29,000 additional people each year.” This is the worst sort of fact-free appeal, and a good example of why there is little intelligent discussion of politics anymore.

There are so many things wrong with this argument that it’s hard to deal with all of them. We’ll only refer to the fact that the death rate increased for the first time in 20 years beginning at exactly the same time Obamacare went into effect. With very few exceptions, it’s pretty safe to ignore predictions about how many lives a bill will take.