Wednesday, January 04, 2006

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Eh. It's a pretty anemic rebuttal, and leave unchalleged Krugman's central assertion that US consumers pay more for health care and get less (in the aggregate). He repeats the canard about waiting lists in Canada and the UK without acknowledging the 20% or so in the US who have no access at all to medical care. He trots out some irrelevant statistics about low birthweight babies (and I love the way he manages to blame it on them pesky blacks!) and glibly dismisses life expectancy as an index of healthcare quality/access. And he concludes with some rightist fantasy about how the liberals want to confiscate all private wealth.

Like Krugman or don't, like single-payer or dont, this commentator ranks somewhere between bufoon and nutjob on the Great Scale of Punditry.

By  Anonymous, at 9:17 PM  

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