Is Krugman asking the impossible?

[Guns Guns Guns]

He's asking Republican supporters to think....

Think about this:

Is there anyone in America today who doesn’t either have a pre-existing medical condition or know someone who does and can’t get health insurance as a result?

Yet two years after Obama’s health care bill became law, how many Americans understand that once it is fully implemented no American with a pre-existing condition will ever again be denied coverage?

“Obamacare is socialized medicine,” says the Republican Party.

No, no — excuse me — socialized medicine is what we have now! People without insurance can go to an emergency ward or throw themselves on the mercy of a doctor, and the cost of all this uncompensated care is shared by all those who have insurance, raising your rates and mine.

That is socialized medicine and that is what Obamacare ends.

Yet Obama — the champion of private insurance for all — has allowed himself to be painted as a health care socialist.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/o...ident-obama-should-seize-the-high-ground.html

 

[Rune]

LOL

 

[Don Quixote]

He's asking Republican supporters to think....

Think about this:

Is there anyone in America today who doesn’t either have a pre-existing medical condition or know someone who does and can’t get health insurance as a result?

Yet two years after Obama’s health care bill became law, how many Americans understand that once it is fully implemented no American with a pre-existing condition will ever again be denied coverage?

“Obamacare is socialized medicine,” says the Republican Party.

No, no — excuse me — socialized medicine is what we have now! People without insurance can go to an emergency ward or throw themselves on the mercy of a doctor, and the cost of all this uncompensated care is shared by all those who have insurance, raising your rates and mine.

That is socialized medicine and that is what Obamacare ends.

Yet Obama — the champion of private insurance for all — has allowed himself to be painted as a health care socialist.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/o...ident-obama-should-seize-the-high-ground.html

i think that you mean thomas friedman, not krugman

also, the republicans need the economy to tank, otherwise they have no winnable message

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

i think that you mean thomas friedman, not krugman also, the republicans need the economy to tank, otherwise they have no winnable message

You're right about the first point, but wrong about the second.

For many on the right, isn't the "winnable message" the fact that their candidate is white?

 

[Don Quixote]

You're right about the first point, but wrong about the second.

For many on the right, isn't the "winnable message" the fact that their candidate is white?

i wonder if the reps have enough racists to win, maybe coupled with the usual suspect they might

but then mitt is a mormon and that might offset some of the racists

 

[Guns Guns Guns]

i wonder if the reps have enough racists to win, maybe coupled with the usual suspect they might but then mitt is a mormon and that might offset some of the racists

Don't the kind of bigots who hate Mormons also think Obama is a Muslim?