Indulge me while I tell you a story a near-future version of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” It begins with sad news: young Timothy Cratchit, a k a Tiny Tim, is sick. And his treatment will cost far more than his parents can pay out of Full Story »
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Krugman doesn't bring anything new to the table in this opinion piece. The story that is a decent but not great bill is standard across the MSM.
But poor Tim might have gotten better medical results if his condition had been treated a few years earlier, instead of having to wait 4 years until "reform" kicked in. His family might have been able to send his elder sister to school if the Senate had done better cost controls.
Krugman, in my view, is one of the strait shooters in the economic realm. His ideas are, I suppose, left of center, but there's no getting around his assessment of the issue at hand, especially where it comes to republican, fiscal conservative and progressive positions on the current bill.
Krugman tells Progressives how to find, if not satisfaction, at the least acceptance in the Health Care Bill.
But those rules are no longer operative. No, Virginia, at this point there is no sanity clause. More »
It is written by an economic Nobel prize winning scholar who offers some insight to the scholarly view of politics.
Krugman may be trying to get back into the mainstream media spotlight by advocating compromise in the healthcare reform political spectrum. This is not the same Krugman that criticized Obama for using the same people in his administration to control the economy that caused the economic collapse.
Imperfect as it is, the legislation that passed the Senate on Thursday and will probably, in a slightly modified version, soon become law will make America a much better ... More »
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