Paul Krugman "hits the nail on the head" in re: Obamacare

[HenryBHough]

The major problem with a draft is the military gets a lot of people that don't want to be there and can and do really screw it up for those that do.

Yes. Exactly.

And that'll be an issue when the fallout of Obamacare includes forcing a test-selected many to be mandated to be trained in various medical fields to fill the national shortage. Imagine the care they'll feel motivated to give!

 

[Meister]

I want single-payer like Israel has anyway.

Unacceptable Realities

That’s a curious belief to hold, given the fact that every other advanced country has such a guarantee, and that we ourselves have a 45-year-old single-payer system for seniors that has worked pretty well all this time. But nothing makes these people as angry as the suggestion that Obamacare might actually prove workable.

And like Israel, would you also support and partake in the mandatory draft into the military? Men serve three years and women two to three years.

The population of Israel is < 9 million.

USA population: > 317 million. Not counting illegal immigrants.

Even the unemployed have to pay for their health insurance.
No Medicaid in Israel!

Not to mention the profiling that they do in Israel.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Krugman is a very wise man:

Unacceptable Realities

(snip)

The hysteria over Obamacare is being well documented, of course; Sahil Kapur’s piece on “Obamacare McCarthyism” — the instant purging of any Republican who offers any hint of accommodation to the law of the land — is getting a lot of well-deserved attention. One thing Kapur doesn’t emphasize, however, is what I see a lot in my inbox (and in my reading): the furious insistence that nothing resembling a government guarantee of health insurance can possibly work.

That’s a curious belief to hold, given the fact that every other advanced country has such a guarantee, and that we ourselves have a 45-year-old single-payer system for seniors that has worked pretty well all this time. But nothing makes these people as angry as the suggestion that Obamacare might actually prove workable.

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thank you and


Happy Holidays!

 

[Stephanie]

Paul Krugman

when did he become the be ALL MIGHTY of knowledge on every damn thing in the universe we are suppose to bow to?

more like he hit his head too many times on Obama's knees

now he resorts to whining about other countries and how wonderful they have things...

He know how to fly out of ours doesn't he?

 

[Ernie S.]

I want single-payer like Israel has anyway.

Unacceptable Realities

That’s a curious belief to hold, given the fact that every other advanced country has such a guarantee, and that we ourselves have a 45-year-old single-payer system for seniors that has worked pretty well all this time. But nothing makes these people as angry as the suggestion that Obamacare might actually prove workable.

Move to Israel! Or Cuba!

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Paul Krugman

when did he become the be ALL MIGHTY of knowledge on every damn thing in the universe we are suppose to bow to?
...

When people like you started to have a shit fit every time his name is mentioned?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Krugman is a puffed up ass hat who sits in his ivory tower pontificating what should be, yet has never produced a working model of anything he has advanced over the years, hence he is a hero of the political left. His head is what's been hit, several times I'm guessing.

Pretty much sums it up. He is the epiphany of the elitist liberal idealist.
Anyone defending a system where people have 40% copay and $10,000 deductible is a complete farce and is either a dishonest zealot or just plain dumb.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Krugman is a puffed up ass hat who sits in his ivory tower pontificating what should be, yet has never produced a working model of anything he has advanced over the years, hence he is a hero of the political left. His head is what's been hit, several times I'm guessing.

Pretty much sums it up. He is the epiphany of the elitist liberal idealist.
Anyone defending a system where people have 40% copay and $10,000 deductible is a complete farce and is either a dishonest zealot or just plain dumb.

jesus, can you distort facts anymore?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Krugman is a puffed up ass hat who sits in his ivory tower pontificating what should be, yet has never produced a working model of anything he has advanced over the years, hence he is a hero of the political left. His head is what's been hit, several times I'm guessing.

Pretty much sums it up. He is the epiphany of the elitist liberal idealist.
Anyone defending a system where people have 40% copay and $10,000 deductible is a complete farce and is either a dishonest zealot or just plain dumb.

jesus, can you distort facts anymore?

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Pretty much sums it up. He is the epiphany of the elitist liberal idealist.
Anyone defending a system where people have 40% copay and $10,000 deductible is a complete farce and is either a dishonest zealot or just plain dumb.

jesus, can you distort facts anymore?

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

7 letters:

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[iamwhatiseem]

jesus, can you distort facts anymore?

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

7 letters:

context

22 letters:
WTF are you babbling about?
But then again - you rarely make sense.

 

[HenryBHough]

We're seeing, in action, the failure of Romneycare (the Massachusetts prototype for Obamacare) to adequately deal with mental health issues.

 

[Dot Com]

jesus, can you distort facts anymore?

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

7 letters:

context

lets not forget the subsidies either. You KNOW some of the mouth-breathing Teapublican voters on this site are getting a subsidy under the new law not to mention no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime caps on receiving HC (the old insurance co death panels ), Children on plan until 26, refunds, etc...

FACT SHEET: Middle Class Americans Saving Billions under the Health Care Law?s Medical Loss Ratio Refunds | The White House

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

7 letters:

context

lets not forget the subsidies either. You KNOW some of the mouth-breathing Teapublican voters on this site are getting a subsidy under the new law not to mention no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime caps on receiving HC (the old insurance co death panels ), Children on plan until 26, refunds, etc...

FACT SHEET: Middle Class Americans Saving Billions under the Health Care Law?s Medical Loss Ratio Refunds | The White House

yup

 

[Amelia]

Paul Krugman owned on Canadian healthcare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPd2i4Jshs

Priceless!

 

[itfitzme]

any non- ad hominem responses?

Where is the Ad Hominem? Please provide one successful real world working economic model Krugman has ever produced and implemented. Just one.

What are you saying, that " the fact that every other advanced country has such a guarantee" is incorrect? Anything less than that is ad hominem.

 

[boedicca]

It's not at all surprising that DotCommunist admires a hypocritical idiot such as Former Enron Advisor Krugman.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Jesus, can you identify a fact anymore?
What are you disputing? 40% copay?? Up to $10,000 deductible???
What specifically?

7 letters:

context

lets not forget the subsidies either. You KNOW some of the mouth-breathing Teapublican voters on this site are getting a subsidy under the new law not to mention no exclusions for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime caps on receiving HC (the old insurance co death panels ), Children on plan until 26, refunds, etc...

FACT SHEET: Middle Class Americans Saving Billions under the Health Care Law?s Medical Loss Ratio Refunds | The White House

Yes...and there are plenty of people NOT getting a subsidy.
40% copay and $7000 - $10,000 deductible is not insurance. It is pretend insurance.
And let's not forget, that on January 1 - there will be less people insured than before...then let's also not forget that the employer mandate will kick in late next year - which will almost certainly mean that, again, January 1, 2015 - less people will be insured than before ACA as there will absolutely be mass exits out of the system by employers.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Paul Krugman owned on Canadian healthcare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPd2i4Jshs

Priceless!

Yeah I loved that one!
Dumbass...he forgot he was out of his leather chair environment and in the real world...oops.

 

[Dot Com]

are you allergic to sources?

As to the OP, Repubs had their chance and they blew it. Now they're complaining that someone did what they refused to address from 2000-2006 when they had complete control of the gubmint?