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Krugtron Confers His Invincibility to ObamaCare

Remember when healthcare.gov first launched, back on October 1, that Krugman wrote: So, very early reports are that Obamacare exchanges are, as expected, having some technical glitches on the first day — maybe even a bit worse than expected, because it appears that volume has been much bigger than predicted. Here’s what you need to […]

The Economics of ObamaCare

I have a Mises Daily running through some basics. Example: There are reasons for the particular provisions [of the Affordable Care Act], which sound superficially sensible (if you don’t know much about economics). Obviously, before the passage of the new law, there were millions of people without health insurance coverage. Although many of them were […]

Jon Stewart Deals With “You Can Keep Your Health Plan, PERIOD”

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Clarifying Michael Cohen’s Outrageous Apology for Obama

David R. Henderson links to a simply astonishing piece by Michael Cohen, trying to do damage control for Obama. Some excerpts: In selling the health-care plan that bears his name, President Obama has, according to the fact-checking website Politifact, said at least 34 times that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep […]

Potpourri

==> Oh my gosh, a peer-reviewed publication cited my doctoral dissertation. I am still in shock. Topan and Paun–like me–think Mises makes an invalid argument to establish the apodictic preference for satisfaction sooner rather than later. Jeff Herbener responds. ==> This guy literally lives in the NYU library. ==> Pat Michaels and Chip Knappenberger show […]

Stephan Kinsella Has a Scheme That Walter Block Would Say Is Heroic

From Facebook (and Stephan said I could post it): So, if it’s now illegal for a medical insurance co to refuse people for ‘pre-existing conditions’– what’s to prevent a group from using this for various extortionate purposes? For example you live in a big city, you have cancer, and you are friends w/ a bunch […]

Krugman on Government Fiscal Hole: “Death panels and sales taxes is how we do this.”

In 1984, one of the minor characters early on disappears because he was just too enthusiastic in his zeal for Big Brother. I always think of this guy when Paul Krugman unfurls his refreshing candor and explains the full implications of his brand of political economy. The below clip is from a talk Krugman gave […]

Krugman: ObamaCare Rollout the Fault of Private Insurance; Single Payer Would Fix Everything

A lot of us have been warning that ObamaCare is a system that even many of its proponents knew would fail, but in so doing would pave the way for their true objective: the elimination of private health insurance to be replaced by the federal government as a “single payer” for all medical care. In […]