Health Care Hopes - New York Times

Health Care Hopes - New York Times Paul Krugman: "There won’t be a
serious Republican alternative. The health care plans of the leading
Republican candidates, such as they are, are the same old, same old: they
principally rely on tax breaks that go mainly to the well-off, but will
supposedly conjure up the magic of the market.

As Ezra Klein of The American Prospect cruelly but accurately puts it:
“The Republican vision is for a world in which the sick and dying get to
deduct some of the cost of health insurance that they don’t have — and
can’t get — on their taxes.”

But the G.O.P. nominee, whoever he is, won’t be trying to persuade the
public of the merits of his own plan. Instead, he’ll try to scare the
dwindling fraction of Americans who still have good health insurance
by claiming that the Democrats will take it away."