Let me start by pointing out something serious health economists have known all along: on general principles, universal health insurance should be eminently affordable.
After all, every other advanced country offers universal coverage, while spending much less on health care than we do. For example, the French health care system covers everyone, offers excellent care and costs barely more than half as much per person as our system.
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PAUL KRUGMAN is always an excellent op-ed writer and in this case he gets five stars. In many ways pointing the obvious.
Let me start by pointing out something serious health economists have known all along: on general principles, universal health insurance should be eminently affordable.
Employers would also have to chip in, with all firms employing more than 25 people required to offer their workers insurance or pay a penalty. By the way, the absence of such an “employer mandate” was the big problem with the earlier, incomplete version of the plan.
Tell that to the Blue Dogs & Republicans!
To bad we couldn't make this required reading of Congress. Thrilled that he takes the side of the Public Option.