To: JohnM who wrote (246487 ) 3/4/2014 4:22:43 PM From: JohnM Read Replies (2) | Respond to And here's the previous brief Krugman piece on Ryan's proposals, the one to which he refers in his first sentence or two.Flimflam, The Next Generation took Paul Ryan’s measure almost four years ago, back when everyone in Washington was determined to see him as the Serious, Honest Conservative they knew had to exist somewhere. Everything we’ve seen of him since then has confirmed that initial judgment. When you see a big report from Ryan, you shouldn’t ask “Is this a con job?” but instead skip right to “Where’s the con?”poverty report .protests from the authors . In other cases the misdirection is more subtle.best available survey on these issues tonight, which looks at the research and finds little evidence of significant disincentive effects from Medicaid (or food stamps). That’s not at all the impression you get from the Ryan report. So I looked at the Medicaid section, and found that it contains a more or less unstructured listing of lots of papers; if you read that list carefully, you find that there really isn’t anything in there making a strong case for large incentive effects.usual Medicaid zombies too .
