Today, Time’s Mark Halperin posted a rant written by an anonymous “Close Observer of the Health Care Debate” who thinks that “ObamaCare Is/Might be in Deep Doodoo.” Halperin calls this “Essential Reading.”

First off, turning over Serious website to an anonymous source is irresponsible, even for a Serious Journalist. For all I know, it could’ve been some blogger writing for Halperin today. It’s even more irresponsible to call this “Essential Reading,” given that the source’s facts and assumptions are terribly wrong.

Anonymous writes:

And as kumbaya fades, Business is getting increasingly antsy because they know they are paying the bill at the end of the day and there is positively nothing in the legislation that will bring down costs, and they know the main point of the PWC study is dead on.

The PricewaterhouseCoopers document that Anonymous characterizes as “dead on” is the widely panned study commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans that even PWC has basically admitted is misleading. As The New Republic’s Christopher Orr notes, the study excluded all elements of reform that would would lower premiums.

Anonymous writes that pushing for a public health insurance plan is a loser:

Everyone is for “reform” but here is why this whole enterprise has always been bad politics: At a time when we have 10% unemployment and record deficits, Congress is going to  1) cut Medicare and 2) raise taxes to 3) pay for health care for the uninsured. None of these are popular.

Congress is not going to cut Medicare. That would be unpopular. Efforts to streamline Medicare should be popular with all Americans, especially among ‘fiscally responsible’ conservatives - you know, the people who wanted to privatize Medicare until they changed their tune and started fear-mongering to score some political points.

Democrats in Congress do not want to flatly raise taxes. They want to raise taxes on the rich, which is in fact popular. Gallup found in April that 60 percent of Americans believe upper-income people are paying too little in federal taxes.

Paying for the health care of the uninsured is not exactly unpopular either. Actually, it’s very popular.

A new Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 76 percent of Americans would support having the federal government create a new health insurance plan that would compete with private health insurance plans, is run by state governments, and is available only to people who do not have a choice of affordable private insurance.

This assumption by Anonymous is also wrong:

And when McDonnell wins in Virginia despite his encyclical, Blue Dogs and moderates will get even more nervous about midterms. Likely Corzine win gets discounted because it’s New Jersey and GOP nominated a hapless candidate.

Just because Chris Christie has run a poor campaign does not make him a “hapless candidate.” New Jersey Republicans have wanted to run Christie for a few years now based on his corruption-buster credentials. Sure, this corruption buster status has always been sort of laughable, but Republicans did believe in it.

Creigh Deeds has also run a bad campaign. Politico’s Jonathan Martin wrote on Sunday that “many in the party privately believe [Deeds] has run a mediocre race.”

Anonymous’s contribution to the health care debate is inherently worthless. But it will do for the Village.