Posted on 09/13/2013 5:49:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
All of it. That's according to New York Times columnist and catty teenage Mean Girl Paul Krugman, who -- without a shred of irony -- devoted his latest sneering column to the supposed lack of policy wonks on the Right. In doing so, he derisively dismissed a critique of the "Affordable" Care Act leveled by Sen. John Barrasso, Republican of Wyoming. These Republicans have no experts! Interestingly, Krugman failed to add a relevant appellation to Barrasso's title: MD. But then, what would a medical doctor know about healthcare? I digress. Krugman's assertion was that every bit of recent health cost-related news has been "good." This statement may come as a surprise to consumers in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Virginia and Wisconsin. Just to name a few. Not appearing on that list was Illinois, where state officials recently submitted proposed Obamacare rates to the federal government; oddly, they chose not to share those figures with the public. More "good" news, I'm sure. Krugman complains that these instances of "rate shock" aren't real because states are making apples-to-oranges comparisons. The indispensable Avik Roy (a conservative healthcare wonk who undermines Krugman's lazy thesis) has addressed many of those objections in granular detail. But back to Krugman's "all good news" claim -- again, issued within the context of ridiculing conservatives' lack of expertise: (1) The post-Obamacare national healthcare "cost curve" (via CMS):
When President Obama began pushing national health care legislation in 2009, he argued that reform was needed to rein in the unsustainable growth in health care spending that was crippling the budgets of businesses, states and the federal government. But a new government actuarial study finds that as a result of the law, health care spending will be $478 billion higher....
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
My health insurance costs have just been released for next year. It will be DOUBLE this year. FU Krugman!!!
Yes folks, he IS that stupid.
Krugman, just doing the job Obama pays him to do.
idiot has lost his last marble
He was told by the drug company, "That's just the way it is."
Dogs are Najis (unclean). Welcome to the Caliphate.
Then why do they have so many running loose in Islam?
You know, a lot of the meds that veterinarians prescribe for pets are actually human meds in smaller doses.
I’ve heard so many disturbing rumors about Obamacare that I don’t know what to believe anymore. One of the rumors I heard is that under Obamacare everybody who works in a hospital or nursing home will have to be unionized to keep their jobs, even in the right-to-work states. Another rumor floating around is that the Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers will be abolished in January, and all those funds will be transferred to the Obamacare bureaucracy to provide healthcare for the indigent. And then there’s the rumor that the IRS has been authorized to send the police to your home, arrest you and confiscate your property if you don’t pay the Obamacare Tax. That last rumor sounds like tinfoil hat paranoia, but you never know. Has anybody on Capital Hill ever read that bill yet? And is there anywhere online where We The People can get access to it, so we can read it?
Libs/commies need to get a life and leave mine alone.
vaudine
It doesn’t matter who has read it. Katherine Sebelius can make it up as she goes along. The law is whatever she and her minions say it is.
Why hasn’t Krugman been turned into Soyent Green by a death panel yet?
Oh. Okay. I should disregard the actual reality of my plan, which increased cost and DRASTICALLY decreased coverage, and believe Krugman's fantasies instead.
Krugman DEFINES the phrase, "The chocolate ration has been increased from the usual 30 grams, to 20 grams this month."
Krugman is just in the wrong era. Think how relevant and successful he would have been if he had worked for Lenin or Stalin. In fact, most of His Arrogance’s administration would have been a good fit in Lenin or Stalin’s administrations.
What world does thisguy live in?
Paul Krugman Goebbels
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