In his Romney’s Sick Joke, New York
Times columnist Paul Krugman makes the sky-is-falling claim that 89
million Americans under 65 “would be left out in the cold (without
health insurance) under Mr. Romney’s plan…By the way, that’s more than a
third of the U.S. population under 65 years old…. Another answer is 45
million, the estimated number of people who would have health insurance
if Mr. Obama were re-elected, but would lose it if Mr. Romney were to
win.”
I am surprised that Krugman did not tell us how many Americans Romney
would allow to die so that he could “cut taxes on the wealthy.”
Politicians, especially liberals, have a nasty habit of creating
government programs to solve problems, without knowing whether the
problem exists, and, if it exists, how big the problem is. Obama Care
was passed, without a Republican vote, to solve a long list of problems –
the uninsured poor, those with existing preconditions, the lack of
universal coverage, soaring health care costs, and so on – that seems to
change with political convenience. According to Krugman, the
health-care crisis now is preexisting conditions and Romney’s heartless
cuts to Medicaid.
go to forbes.com
One day Krugman will pay attention to you.
ReplyDeleteSomething is up with the Nobel Laureates these days. They have tough times with the data and theory. Joseph Stiglitz seems to evade economic theory in his descriptive and prescriptive public dialogues.
ReplyDeleteOct 5, 2012 interview: http://www.charlierose.com/