“That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No...
Paul Krugman pathetically tries to defend Obamacare by writing: Remember “rate shock”? A few months ago it was all the rage in right-wing circles, with supposed experts claiming that Americans were about to face huge premium increases. It quickly became clear,...
Yesterday, I went to HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare insurance exchange website, to see what I could see. Not much, it turned out. I got this: Just now, I returned to the site. Yay! My access was no longer denied! I got the home page. I wanted to see plans, so I clicked...
Former editor and now columnist for the New York Times Bill Keller echoes Paul Krugman’s Orwellian assertion that we need government to create a market for health insurance, absurdly claiming in an article titled “Obamacare: The Rest of the...
Last week, referring to the Republicans feigned conditional opposition — such as demanding defunding or postponed implementation of Obamacare — to raising the debt ceiling, Obama said that “we can’t make extortion routine as part of our...
The government website where people are supposed to be able to go online and sign up for health insurance under Obamacare has proven incredibly dysfunctional. The Obama administration and Obamacare supporters tried to argue this was just because so many people were...
Under Obamacare, insurers are forced to charge the same premiums to the healthy as the sick. John C. Goodman explains the perverse incentive this creates: If the healthy are overcharged so that the sick can be undercharged, then insurance companies can expect to make...
Criticizing the Republicans for trying to throw a wrench in the gears of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) by bluffing that they will let the U.S. default on its debt rather than raise the debt ceiling unless, unless the Act is defunded or elements postponed,...
Thomas Friedman writes in his NYT column: Our Democracy Is at Stake By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN This time is different. What is at stake in this government shutdown forced by a radical Tea Party minority is nothing less than the principle upon which our democracy is based:...
Reporting on the “quickly encountered technological problems” experienced by many people visiting HealthCare.gov, which is host to Obamacare’s online insurance exchanges, the New York Times opened with the spin: Millions of Americans visited new...
Republicans are wrong to attach conditions like delaying Obamacare to their votes to raise the debt ceiling. The correct position would be to unconditionally oppose doing so. On that subject, the New York Times editorializes: Early Sunday morning, all...
The New York Times reports on how the Obama administration is rather blatantly cherry-picking data to try to convince Americans that Obamacare will be wonderful for them: The Obama administration on Tuesday provided the first detailed look at premiums to be...
Paul Krugman writes: Never mind the polls showing approval of Obamacare moving one way or the other; they are all being taken in an environment where people are amazingly ignorant about the law, with a large minority believing that it has been repealed. What matters...
The New York Times reports: Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices Federal officials often say that health insurance will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama’s health care law. But they rarely mention one big reason: many...
In a recent column, Paul Krugman claims that “all the recent news on health costs has been good”. “There has been a striking slowdown in overall health costs since the Affordable Care Act [ACA] was enacted,” he writes, “with many experts giving the law at...
Paul Krugman writes that, “Under Obamacare, someone blessed with good health” — or someone who maintains good health by eating right and exercising, for that matter — “might find his (or, more rarely, her) premiums going up” in...
Paul Krugman writes on his blog that we require the government to create a functioning market for health insurance, that without government stepping in to fill this void in the market, it wouldn’t exist. No, I’m not making this up. His post is titled “It Takes A...
The New York Times editors rather humorously blame Republicans for the fact that “More than half of Americans still say they don’t know how they and their families will be affected by the Affordable Care Act”, a.k.a. Obamacare. So, you see,...
Paul Krugman denies that Obamacare is “the moral equivalent of slavery”. Let’s look it up. Here are the first two meanings of the word from Merriam-Webster: slav·ery (noun) \ˈslā-v(ə-)rē\1: drudgery, toil2: submission to a dominating...
Paul Krugman accuses Republicans of “intellectual bankruptcy” for wanting to make tax-breaks on insurance available to everyone, not just businesses who provide insurance to their employees. Krugman writes: It’s always helpful here to keep your eye on the...