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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKrugman: Health, Work, Lies
Health, Work, Lies
On Wednesday, Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said the obvious: losing your job and choosing to work less arent the same thing. If you lose your job, you suffer immense personal and financial hardship. If, on the other hand, you choose to work less and spend more time with your family, we dont sympathize. We say congratulations.
And now you know everything you need to know about the latest falsehood in the ever-mendacious campaign against health reform.
Lets back up. On Tuesday, the budget office released a report on the fiscal and economic outlook that included two appendices devoted to effects of the Affordable Care Act.
The first appendix attracted almost no attention from the news media, yet it was actually a bombshell. Much public discussion of health reform is still colored by Obamacares terrible start, and presumes that the program remains a disaster. Some of us have pointed out that things have been going much better lately but now its more or less official. The budget office predicts that first-year sign-ups in the health exchanges will fall only modestly short of expectations, and that nearly as many uninsured Americans will gain insurance as it predicted last spring.
This good news got drowned out, however, by false claims about the meaning of the second health care appendix, on labor supply.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/opinion/krugman-health-work-lies.html
On Wednesday, Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, said the obvious: losing your job and choosing to work less arent the same thing. If you lose your job, you suffer immense personal and financial hardship. If, on the other hand, you choose to work less and spend more time with your family, we dont sympathize. We say congratulations.
And now you know everything you need to know about the latest falsehood in the ever-mendacious campaign against health reform.
Lets back up. On Tuesday, the budget office released a report on the fiscal and economic outlook that included two appendices devoted to effects of the Affordable Care Act.
The first appendix attracted almost no attention from the news media, yet it was actually a bombshell. Much public discussion of health reform is still colored by Obamacares terrible start, and presumes that the program remains a disaster. Some of us have pointed out that things have been going much better lately but now its more or less official. The budget office predicts that first-year sign-ups in the health exchanges will fall only modestly short of expectations, and that nearly as many uninsured Americans will gain insurance as it predicted last spring.
This good news got drowned out, however, by false claims about the meaning of the second health care appendix, on labor supply.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/opinion/krugman-health-work-lies.html
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Krugman: Health, Work, Lies (Original Post)
ProSense
Feb 2014
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)1. Kick! n/t
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. Toon- selective vision
ProSense
(116,464 posts)3. That's great. LOL! n/t
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)5. Krugman and I are very close
From his article:
Meanwhile, the reality is that American health reform flawed and incomplete though it is is making steady progress.
I'd say pretty much thes same thing. I'd only add one word:
Meanwhile, the reality is that American health reform fundamentally flawed and incomplete though it is is making steady progress.
Of course we might differ on what it is making progress TOWARDS.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)6. Well, the
"Of course we might differ on what it is making progress TOWARDS."
...good thing about "progress" is that it can be measured. For example,
An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) finds that the Medicaid expansion will eventually reduce West Virginias uninsurance rate by a staggering 67 percent.
More: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024366112