In an effort to defend the indefensible Obamacare law, the Department of Health and Human Services came out with a report claiming that if Obamacare were repealed, 129 million Americans “could be denied affordable coverage.”

Think about that number for a minute.

There are approximately 311 million Americans.

Those over the age of 65 are an estimated 12.8% of the population, or approximately 39 million; they are covered by Medicare.

In 2002, nearly 40 million Americans were covered by Medicaid.

So that’s about 231 million Americans who need who aren’t covered by either of these government programs.

And 129 million—more than half—are at risk of being denied affordable coverage?

Do they really expect any thinking person to believe this?

Probably not.

Asked for more information, HHS referred FoxNews.com to a House Energy and Commerce Committee study last fall. That report found 651,000 people were denied coverage by the four largest for-profit insurers in the three years before the health care overhaul passed.

Approximately 217,000 people are denied coverage by the four largest for-profit insurers each year before Obamacare and somehow if we return to the status quo ante 129 million Americans could lose their coverage?

But my favorite line on the analysis of this propaganda comes from Avik Roy over at National Review.

[HHS Secretary Kathleen] Sebelius and her HHS colleagues try to morph the definition of “preexisting conditions” into “conditions.” Take this random sample of Sebelius’ assault on the English language:

An analysis of a survey that follows people over time found that, among healthy people—reporting very good or excellent health with no chronic conditions—today, 15 to 30 percent (depending on their age) will develop a pre-existing condition within the next eight years.

So, let’s get this straight. Fifteen to 30 percent of Americans will, in the future, develop a preexisting condition. This only makes sense if the HHS has also invented time travel.

A person who has health insurance, and later becomes ill, does not have a preexisting condition. He has a condition of the plain old “existing” kind—one that his insurance will help pay for. This is exactly how insurance is supposed to work.

Repeal and replace.