Paul Krugman: A Health Care Mystery Explained

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….. here’s the thing: Republicans don’t want to help the unfortunate. They’ll propound health-care ideas that will, they claim, help those with preexisting conditions and so on — but those aren’t really proposals, they’re diversionary tactics designed to stall real health reform….

Hence the rage of the right. Here they were, with a whole raft of ideas they could throw out, like chaff thrown out to confuse enemy radar, to divert and confuse any attempt to actually provide insurance to the uninsured. And those dastardly Democrats have gone ahead and actually incorporated those ideas into real reform.

…. There’s no mystery here; it’s just top-down class warfare as usual.

Full post here: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/12/13/a-health-care-mystery-explained/?smid=tw-NytimesKrugman&seid=auto&_r=1

Found on: http://theobamadiary.com/