tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post2577850099707427455..comments2024-02-13T02:39:22.756-05:00Comments on EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Krugman Confuses Healthcare Coverage With Good Quality HealthcareRobert Wenzelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14296920597416905488noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-18546509213468532112014-06-11T16:38:21.437-04:002014-06-11T16:38:21.437-04:00I wouldn't even go so far as calling it "...I wouldn't even go so far as calling it "insurance."Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12341842708287917943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-22801650943916261682014-06-11T08:39:27.361-04:002014-06-11T08:39:27.361-04:00I'm not sure that Krugman or Obama are *idiots...I'm not sure that Krugman or Obama are *idiots*. I think they know perfectly well that health insurance is not the same as health care *service*. <br /> <br />As with the VA, the goal is not to provide benefits to patients. The goal is to provide benefits to *politicians* by suckering the ignorant into believing that all it takes to eliminate scarcity and poverty is a few strokes of the pen.<Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-82072962267812263032014-06-11T07:34:45.344-04:002014-06-11T07:34:45.344-04:00Has krugman tried to explain away how horribly wro...Has krugman tried to explain away how horribly wrong he was about the VA being a model healthcare system?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-8258152971979716322014-06-10T19:05:11.610-04:002014-06-10T19:05:11.610-04:00"I wonder when the Left will figure out that ..."I wonder when the Left will figure out that health insurance is not healthcare."<br /><br />The idiot shit turd left will NEVER get it. Why? Because they can't even grasp econ 101 at the grade school level. They think that all you need is some philosopher (that is, idiot) king to issue a command and magically all will be well.<br /><br />The idiot left will only learn when they putMikehttp://www.anitwar.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-72030532394795447372014-06-10T17:34:43.815-04:002014-06-10T17:34:43.815-04:00Not surprising. Krugman and many confuse health ca...Not surprising. Krugman and many confuse health care with health insurance. Pope of Capitalismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517472470003475056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-55662869479981326612014-06-10T17:09:52.476-04:002014-06-10T17:09:52.476-04:00I wonder when the Left will figure out that health...I wonder when the Left will figure out that health insurance is not healthcare. Obamacare has done a lot on the demand side of the equation but he has done nothing for supply. If he wanted more people, especially the poor and middle class, to have improved accessibility to medical care, he should have sought to either elimination or significantly reduce government imposed barriers to getting Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3758330678390419129.post-76159378662297532722014-06-10T16:56:47.333-04:002014-06-10T16:56:47.333-04:00RW,
Perhaps you haven't taken into considerat...RW,<br /><br />Perhaps you haven't taken into consideration that Krugman is drawing on his well modeled baby sitting co-op and its successful run? (really, it happened right?) Doesn't it apply directly to Obamacare?<br /><br />See, it's very simple: <br /><br />Instead of baby sitting scrip, it's now healthcare scrip, via Federal subsidies. No matter the resources at hand, just Nick Badalamentihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14015961786370759940noreply@blogger.com