"... to those rising food prices, falling employment numbers and spiking health care premiums, things are going great!"
That's what Paul Krugman thinks he is going to try and sell and that his upcoming "trust me over your lyin' eyes" tour is going to fall flat.
You can read his analysis for yourself here.
A blog by a "sucker" and a "loser" who served her country in the Navy.
If you're one of the Covidiots who believe that COVID-19 is "just the flu",
that the 2020 election was stolen, or
especially if you supported the 1/6/21 insurrection,
leave now.
Slava Ukraini!
Saturday, December 6, 2025
3 comments:
House Rules #1, #2 and #6 apply to all comments. Rule #3 also applies to political comments.
In short, don't be a jackass. THIS MEANS YOU!
If you never see your comments posted, see Rule #7.
All comments must be on point and address either the points raised in the blog post or points raised by commenters in response.
Any comments that drift off onto other topics are subject to deletion.
(Please don't feed the trolls.)
中國詞不評論，冒抹除的風險。僅英語。
COMMENT MODERATION IS IN EFFECT UFN. This means that if you are an insulting dick, nobody will ever see it.
You have to take Krugman with a grain or two of salt. He certainly does get some things right
ReplyDeleteFor those who haven’t been keeping up: The Affordable Care Act requires that health insurance companies offer the same policies to everyone, with no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. It also provides significant subsidies to help people pay insurance premiums — specifically, limiting the amount families have to pay out of pocket as a percentage of their income — with the subsidies on a sliding scale based on income. These subsidies have an important secondary benefit: They encourage even healthy people to buy insurance, which improves the risk pool and therefore holds overall premiums down.
Mandatory disclaimer for liberals: Yes, it would be much simpler just to have single-payer healthcare, paid for with progressive taxes. But that wasn’t politically possible when Obamacare was created, and it still isn’t. Obamacare was more or less the best we could get.
Single payer would be more efficient and I am not a liberal.
Of course, the Average American Idiot is fixated on Making it Big Some Day and then Keeping it All. So he pays for kids' schools and fire and police with taxes, but plays Vegas with healthcare (newsflash: the house always wins, and Vegas pays off better than United Healthcare) unlike the average European. AE pays horrendous taxes, but college, childcare and healthcare are there "free". We Americans are SO much better off, with our techbros and billionaires skating out of taxes, and our rugged individuals citizens getting the shaft.
ReplyDeleteThe simple fact is single payer would immediately effectively destroy a huge service industry, and for that reason alone the amount of money that industry pours into buying politicians is incredible. We would effectively have to Nationalize all health care insurers, and there rationalize and combine their systems…massive savings, but also massive job losses. Which is exactly why our current health system consumes so much and produces so little.
ReplyDelete