A little while back, my colleagues did an analysis of the Democrats' health care bill and how many times certain words appeared in it. They found some disturbing, but not terribly surprising results. The bill is littered with words like "require," "regulate," and "tax." Meanwhile, words like "choice," "marketplace," and "freedom" are very scarce. In fact, negative words were utilized nearly three times as often as positive ones, in total.

I decided to run the same kind of analysis on President Obama's speeches in favor of health care reform similar to what the House bill contains. I looked at one major speech (to the American Medical Association) and one major town hall meeting (in Green Bay) and looked for the same words as our earlier analysis. Here are the results...

Negative words...
Term(s)	Frequency
Require/Required/Requirement(s)	4
Report(s)/Reporting/Reported	0
Limit/Limits/Limitation	1
Penalty/Penalties	0
Regulations	0
Tax(es)	2
Enforce/Enforcement	0
Must	0
Prohibit/Prohibiting/Prohibition	1
Sanction(s)	0
Obligation/Obligations	0
Restrict/Restrictive/Restriction	0
Fines	0

Positive words...
Term(s)	Frequency
Benefit(s)	6
Choice	3
Options	19
Private	10
Rights	2
Privacy	1
Exempt/Exemption	1
Marketplace	2
Competition	2
Consumer-driven	0
Freedom	0
Liberty	0
Patient-driven	0

What a shocker! Obama's rhetoric utilizes positive words more than 5.5 times as often as the negative ones. That's a complete reversal of what the Democrats' legislation actually says.

Keep an eye out for this, we'll be rolling out more info on this soon.