Especially if there is a category for utter disingenuousness
An amazing position for any far leftist but Paul Krugman!
This piece by John Merline suggests that the Nobel prizewinning economist, Paul Krugman, your typical Obama “fan”, has a memory for his publicly expressed positions as short as his, er, stature.
Krugman and Obama have, from the beginning, lusted for socialized medicine (“Single Payer”) for America. Most folks who have paid a bit more than average attention to what Obama says on a given versus what he said the day before have long recognized what this whole “Obamacare” fiasco is about…and it can be seen playing out just as conservatives predicted:
Force implementation of a completely unmanageable, unaffordable health insurance program on the nation, made possible by the almost totally corrupted Democratic party and a greedy, gullible health insurance industry. As it is surely bound to do, when it fails, when the private health insurance companies realize that the promises of big profits was just another Obama scam and must get out of the business, the inevitable pleas for the government to “save” health care in America are loudly heard throughout the land.
Voila! The “government” is eager to respond. And here is the “savior”: Universal Single Payer Health Insurance (Socialized Medicine).
This article by Merline exposes the role people like Mr. Krugman play in this “absurd theater”: Krugman wanted Single Payer when Obamacare was introduced;, Now, Krugman proclaims the wondrous success of it even though “the plan” is playing out just as it was designed. Watch for Mr. Krugman’s next position on health care in America. We predict that, when it is determined to be the “right time”, our award winning economist will wisely proclaim that, indeed, the only way to save America is “Single Payer” health care.
By John Merline writing at Investors Business Daily
Paul Krugman Begs Liberals To Stop Bashing ObamaCare
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is a bit apoplectic that the left, which has always wanted single-payer health care, is still pushing for single-payer health care. . . .
It’s an odd complaint coming from Krugman, since ObamaCare is failing in just the way Krugman said it would years ago.
When ObamaCare was being debated, Krugman argued that a “public option” — a government-run insurance plan — competing with private plans in the ObamaCare exchanges was vital because “it could evolve into single-payer over time.”
Without that public option, he wrote in 2009, the reform would be in serious trouble. “Everything I see says that there will be a major backlash against the idea of forcing people to buy insurance from the existing companies. That backlash was part of what got Obama the nomination!”
“Imagine that reform passes but that premiums shoot up (or even keep rising at the rates of the past decade). Then you could all too easily have many people blaming Obama et al. for forcing them into this increasingly unaffordable system.”
Well, what do you know, that’s just what’s happened. (That’s not to say that a public option would have made ObamaCare any better.) . . .
DLH
