Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Brad Delong on health care

No, Megan, We Are Not For Health Care Reform Because We Hate Freedom

We are for health care reform because our health care sector is wedged.

TBogg:

TBogg » Close only counts in hand grenades and health care: Per downpuppy in comments, we see that the "such is blogging" research method is still in play as the Atlantic econoblogger [Megan McArdle] is surprised to find out that health care insurance premiums have actually gone up in the past seven years. Who knew? This is priceless:

Megan McArdle (Replying to: anirprof) August 4, 2009 12:27 PM

Jesus! It was $400 a month when I was getting insurance in 2002; I wanted to err on the optimistic side. Discussing health care in America does not seem to be the government's Megan McArdle's core competence.


Yep. Megan McArdle wrote:

It's All In The Budget: How many people does he really think are quiting their jobs and deliberately impoverishing themselves in order to qualify for Medicaid, rather than earning an income which can support the $350 or so per person that gets charged for an HMO in a community-rated state like New York with generous mandatory benefits?...

She really did think that health insurance costs had stayed constant in nominal dollars since 2002...

Why oh why can't we have a better press corps?

Posted via web from Jim Nichols

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