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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (114781)	7/6/2009 12:08:35 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541853

<<<Our health care system is broken, but rather than fix it, Krugman wants to put another IV into the health care patient>>> If something is broken, you have to pay to get it fixed. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride (for free). Where do you get this that Krugman is a dummy?

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (114781)	7/6/2009 3:09:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541853

Our health care system is broken, but rather than fix it, Krugman wants to put another IV into the health care patient. An IV transfusing money from the tax payer to the sick. Once again Krugman shows no sense what so ever for one side of the ledger. Your post befuddles me. Krugman posts a way to get near universal health care within the strictures the congress has set and one that is politically possible. And you beat up on him for doing it. As for the last six months' argument, it's simply not politically possible. And I'm not certain it's humane either. Would take a great deal of rearranging of economic incentives and cultural perceptions. Not a bad idea for a long term issue but bringing it up right now would doom any healthcare proposal. Particularly if any of the major political players did so.