TIM CARNEY: The latest liberal defense of Obamacare: Megahospitals love it!

An industry being subsidized by a law defends the law, and somehow that industry’s arguments are supposed to carry special weight? . . .

This is a standard liberal way of defending regulations and subsidies: pointing to the industries that benefit from the policies, and saying, “look, even industry supports this intervention!”

In an editorial, Florida’s Sun-Sentinel defended regulations that protect Realtors and other professionals from competition by pointing out that the protected professionals don’t want these protections to go away.

Seemingly on a hundred occasions, liberals defended the light bulb law by pointing out how even the light bulb industry supported these rules, which pad their profit margins. . . .

And on climate change legislation, lefties again and again point to support from megacorps like General Electric or Nike as proof that their bill is salutary.