The print edition of the August 12 Washington Examiner contained a version of a Heritage Foundation chart purporting to offer a selected state-by-state breakdown of how an “independent analysis by the nonpartisan Lewin Group” showed that health-care reform “could shift 88 million Americans out of existing employer-based plans” and into the proposed public plan.

But the Examiner failed to note that the “nonpartisan” Lewin Group is owned by the insurance company UnitedHealth Group, which has a stake in not wanting people to switch from private insurance. Nor did the Examiner mention that, by contrast, the Congressional Budget Office found that only 2 million people would switch from employer coverage to the public plan.

Heritage didn't mention any of that either, of course -- but then, it commissioned the Lewin Group report.