Host of Bush's anti-health care event doesn't even agree with Bush. Yet, no one asked him last week at the event -- including Bush.

More evidence that the White House press corps are mere stenographers of Bush's words. Last week, your President did a "roundtable" on health care. Basically, the Bush team created an event for Bush to blast the idea of providing health care coverage to children. I wrote a post about that news titled "Bush to America's kids: Screw you."

Turns out Bush's host for the event, Clifton Broumand, doesn't share Bush's disdain for providing insurance to children. Funny how it took us a week to find that out. Didn't anyone ask him -- or was that against the rules. Seems like none of the White House press corps wanted to step on Bush's anti-kids message:

For Broumand, a Democrat who did not vote for Bush, expanding the insurance program for children is a no-brainer. More than 8 million children lack health insurance, according to the Census Bureau. Without coverage, Broumand said, they are less likely to get preventive care and more likely to need expensive emergency room visits, with the costs absorbed by consumers.

"My personal feeling is that the plan should be to cover every child, whether it's private or federal," he said. "When you don't cover children, what ends up happening is that when kids are sick, which happens in my office, parents aren't productive. They have to go home."

Broumand said he is not in favor of a government-run health system. But he is no fan of insurance companies either. The plan he offers to his 28 employees costs $300 a month for individuals and $800 for family coverage. The business pays $5,600 a month for health insurance -- more than it spends on rent -- and premiums have increased 73 percent since 2003, he said.

Private insurers "are like the Godfather -- they make you an offer you can't refuse," Broumand said. "When my insurance goes up 73 percent in four years, that's a tax. . . . All these things are hidden taxes."

Since 45 million Americans lack insurance, there already is "de facto" rationing, he argued.

It shouldn't have taken a week for us to learn this. Nice report from the Washington Post's Christopher Lee.

There is a huge problem with health insurance in America. Everyone seems to know it except Bush and some of his GOP allies. It's a disaster.

And, note to Hillary Clinton: we know you bear "the scars" from the 1993 health care fiasco. But, those are figurative scars. A lot of Americans bear really serious injuries and diseases because of the health care fiasco in this country.