Healthcare: George Will takes Paul Krugman to school....again.

[Liberty]

GEORGE WILL, ABC NEWS: Now Paul says, that, in fact, the Republicans have no ideas. They do. Cross selling across state lines. Tort reform. All this. Just a second, Paul. Then you say they're telling whoppers, that was your view. He said about Lamar Alexander, "When he said, ‘For millions of Americans, premiums will go up.'" You said in the next sentence in your column, "I guess you could say he wasn't technically lying because the Congressional Budget Office says that's true."

PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: No, that's not what it says. Can explain this? This is actually a point.


WILL: Let me set the predicate here, because you then go on and say, "The Senate does say the average premiums would go up but people would be getting better premiums."

KRUGMAN: Let me explain what happens, because you actually have to read the CBO report. And what the CBO report tells you in fairly elliptical language is that what it will do, what the bill will do is bring a lot of people who are uninsured, who are currently young, and therefore relatively low cost into the risk pool which will actually bring premiums down a little bit. It will also however let a lot of people get better insurance. It will lead a lot of people who are currently underinsured who have insurance policies that are paper thin and don't actually protect you in a crisis, will actually get those people up to having full coverage. That makes the average payments go up, but it does not mean that people who currently have good coverage under their policies will pay more for their insurance. It does not. In fact, they'll end up paying a little bit less.

WILL: One question: If the government came to you and said, "Professor Krugman, you have a car. We're going to compel you to buy a more expensive car, but it's not really more expensive because it's a better car." Wouldn't you tell them to get off your land?

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[Dutch]

If the government takes over healthcare that will be the end to any kind of innovation, research, and discovery of better treatments; government run healthcare is a death sentence for millions of Americans with Type I diabetes, and other diseases requiring an aggressive approach towards finding a cure.

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Originally Posted by Dutch

If the government takes over healthcare that will be the end to any kind of innovation, research, and discovery of better treatments; government run healthcare is a death sentence for millions of Americans with Type I diabetes, and other diseases requiring an aggressive approach towards finding a cure.

That "end to any kind of innovation..." will come to an end when enough of us decide it is time to put government in its place (under OUR control) and hold a 2nd American Revolution that terminates the mini-dictators, now violating OUR Rights and OUR Constitution.