Many Americans who still support Democratic health care proposals have no idea what would actually happen to health care should they pass, according to theNew York Times, but are turning out in support on an 11-city bus tour anyway.

At the bus tour stops, people were treated to a highly organized “pep rally” atmosphere with few real answers. The answer, it is assumed, is to show up, take one of the preprinted signs the Democratic National Committee has helpfully prepared for you, and support whatever Barack Obama wants you to support, whether it’s a good idea or not. Thinking is not encouraged. Cheering, empty rhetoric, and stories of how the current half-socialized system has failed — and laying blame anywhere but where it belongs — are the order of the day.

TheTimes told the story of one Denver woman whose 9 year old grandson died of complications from asthma because Medicaid denied him necessary care. It never seems to have occurred to her that she was supporting expanding this sort of “health care” to everyone in the country: “I’m out here if it will help one more kid get medication.”

Confusion runs rampant among Democrats, which may be part of the reason they only come out to events like this when party bosses tell them to. But no point of confusion is more widespread — or more potentially destructive to society — than this one:

Laura Jones, 55, a homemaker and mother of two from St. Louis, said her own personal message is blunt: Old solutions based on free markets and capitalism no longer work, she said, and government must play a bigger role.

“I keep telling my friends, ‘Adam Smith is dead,’” Ms. Jones said, referring to the 18th-century philosopher who famously taught that the invisible hand of the market works best.

“Get over it,” she said. “We have to deal with today’s problems with today’s answers.” — New York Times

Let’s see. Before the government started taking over health care, doctors were easy to find and even made house calls. Hospital stays were inexpensive. The very few people who couldn’t pay got help from within their communities. Not to mention, health care providers actually cared about their patients. Sounds good? That’s what a free market health care system looks like — or looked like before the government destroyed it.

At one of the bus tour stops in Indianapolis, Ind., Rep. André Carson (D-Ind.) made some pretty absurd statements of his own, to cheers from the crowd.

First: “I’m telling you that some of these protesters are paid by the insurance companies,” Carson says. “These are paid actors.” I never saw or heard of any protester (against health care destruction) who was paid to be there. But the Democrats paid travel expenses for many of the people who they called out to their “town hall” meetings, even busing in people from out of state in places like Portsmouth, N.H., to make it appear that their proposals have more support than they actually do.

As opposed to the top-down organizing of the Democrats, the people who showed up in protest to town hall meetings were loosely organized, if at all, most of them hearing about the meetings through word of mouth and showing up on their own. Perhaps that’s why this bus tour was kept under wraps and word spread only through official party channels.

Carson then implies that the Veterans Administration would be a good model for government controlled health care. My readers already know how absurd that is. And finally he blames drug companies for the high cost of prescription drugs, when we already know that government is the reason the drugs cost so much, or aren’t available at all.

With propaganda like we’ve seen on this bus tour, and throughout the health care “debate,” it’s no wonder so many people support a government takeover of health care. Yet government has already partly taken over health care, and with each such takeover, health care in America just gets worse and worse. Indeed, the Democratic health care proposals are designed to make health care more expensive and less accessible, even as they’re wrapped in nice-sounding words about making it less expensive and more accessible. According to Obama’s health care czar, this is supposed to be good for society, and if the government so decrees, the individual — that’s you — can go to hell.