Monday, August 11, 2008

Krugman's Misdiagnosis   [Mark R. Levin]

Paul Krugman and the other socialist health care advocates are stuck in the 1960's.

Yes, there is Medicare, Mr. Krugman. And yes, it is immensely popular. But it is in financial ruin. And the fraudulent manner in which it is sold to Americans by their government, and repeated by your likes, is much worse than all the lies spun around Enron, a company with which you are personally familiar, Mr. Krugman. The now retired Comptroller General of the United States reported a few months back that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid presently impose a $53 trillion obligation on our society, and he correctly warned of the dire consequences of doing nothing about them. And Medicare, in particular, is in need of the most urgent overhaul. But rather than thinking of ways to alleviate the coming financial storm, Krugman and the other socialists insist we expand government involvement in health care by nationalizing as much of it — directly and/or indirectly — as possible.

And no, Mr. Krugman, every person in countries with government-run health care do not receive timely, quality medical treatment. The public record is so full of examples of systemic breakdowns in the health care provided in Europe and Canada it's hard to keep up with them. But Krugman is an ideologue. The evidence is of no real concern to him or his ilk, so he ignores it. He measures progress by the extent to which government runs things, not by what actually benefits society.

08/11 12:24 PMShare