Suzanne Somers' Bad Medicine

Suzanne Somers' Bad Medicine
Suzanne Somers attends the Daytime Emmy Nominee Cocktail Reception in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision for Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/AP Images)
Suzanne Somers attends the Daytime Emmy Nominee Cocktail Reception in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Thursday, June 13, 2013. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision for Academy of Television Arts & Sciences/AP Images)

Regular readers of The Wall Street Journal's The Experts blog Monday were treated to a column by actress and anti-aging guru Suzanne Somers that decried Obamacare as "a socialist ponzi scheme." The post went viral online and was widely jeered, especially after The Journal appended three corrections (one about an apparently phony Winston Churchill quote, another about an unverifiable Vladimir Lenin quote, and a third stating that a horse was misidentified as a dog). Others criticized Somers's qualifications on public policy.

But the most concerning part about Somers's apparent status as a health care expert was not her views on Obamacare but what she might like to replace it with.

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