Krugman – costs and compassion

Whoa Paul – take your Ritalin dude. Like the fact that you link cost control and expanded coverage, first correct thing you’ve said. But nothing in the house bill (at least the one that’s currently being floated) provides any measures that contain costs. The MEDPAC you refer to has no power to change Medicare reimbursement for “things that work”, and if it did, whether you like it or not, you’re on the road to rationing via something like N.I.C.E. in Britain.

I’d also love to hear your take on the CBO’s (nonpartisan I might add) assertion that the current plans do absolutely nothing to address the structural costs of health care. I suppose that like other rabid Progressive partisans like Harry Reid, you’ve once again turned on your own, in this case Elmendorf, and dismiss him as a quack. You guys make me laugh, except it ain’t funny, you’re on the road to bankrupting the country, and continuing the Bush bashing, while I’m sure is satisfying to the Left, is more proof that your own ideas are as bankrupt as anything that moron pushed through.