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Govt. health care

Like your private health care? Thank government intervention for it, Paul Krugman writes. Without subsidies and attached government requirements that keep insurance companies from barring the unhealthy or only serving highly paid employees, it wouldn't amount to much.

Also remember: Medicare is single payer insurance. Try to take it away from retired Americans.

Bottom line: unregulated free market won't work for health care.

Posted by Max Brantley on July 31, 2009 06:17 AM |

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This Krugman column is as clear and incisive as anything I have read concerning the government and health care. Let Paul Greenberg sneer at English style that is not as preciously erudite as his. I'll take honesty and clarity of meaning any day -- from Paul Krugman or even Yogi Berra.

Posted by: Snapback [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 31, 2009 08:05 AM

Don't forget the impact that organized labor had on every aspect of the workers life. Without those unions back there we peons would have nothing.

Posted by: Alligatorgar [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 31, 2009 08:16 AM

"Keep your government hands off my Medicare."
Sad. And terrifying. This epidemic of ignorance will destroy us. Maybe it already has.

Posted by: Doigotta [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 31, 2009 08:34 AM

I seem to be hung up on the idea that Obamacare includes giving more subsidies to the insurance companies through low income workers when we mostly agree insurance adds about a third to health care costs.

Posted by: Phaedrus [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 31, 2009 10:12 AM

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