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A General Theory of Obamacare Fiction
The New York Times ^ | February 26, 2014 | by Paul Krugman

Posted on 02/26/2014 7:46:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Conservatives appear to be really upset that liberals are actually taking on the facts in the anti-Obamacare ads they’ve been running. How dare you question whether the people in these ads are giving an accurate picture — they’re suffering! --SNIP--

So here’s what you need to understand. The Affordable Care Act isn’t magic — it produces losers as well as winners. But it’s not black magic either, turning everyone into a loser. What the Act does is in effect to increase the burden on fortunate people — the healthy and wealthy — to lift some burdens on the less fortunate: people with chronic illnesses or other preexisting conditions, low-income workers.

(Excerpt) Read more at krugman.blogs.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; demagogicparty; journalism; memebuilding; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; obamacare; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; paulkrugman; rinocare; socialism; zerocare
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What the Act does is in effect to increase the burden on fortunate people — the healthy and wealthy — to lift some burdens on the less fortunate:

Healthcare is now a welfare program

21 posted on 02/26/2014 10:45:13 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Diogenesis

If you like your health insurance, you might be a winner or loser....


22 posted on 02/26/2014 10:47:38 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Krugman. The financial Goebbels of the current occupation.


23 posted on 02/26/2014 10:55:47 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Krudman, this was sold.as.The best thing since sliced bread. It was so good it would save money. And now there are losers? Who? Working people? People who pay their own way and barely make it? Those losers? Krudman, you are pathetic!


24 posted on 02/26/2014 10:59:33 PM PST by vpintheak (Thankful to be God blessed & chosen!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obamacare is destroying our healthcare and hurting our economy and employment. There is no defense for it.


25 posted on 02/26/2014 11:09:03 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2014 and the Crusades 2014?)
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To: Talisker
One of Krugman’s winners is the bureaucracy. They are big winners.
26 posted on 02/26/2014 11:24:49 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Jack Hammer
[Actually, what the act does, Mr. Krugman, is to generate an enormous new bureaucracy which is staffed by yet another army of paper-shuffling morons sucking away on the public teat, while generating and consolidating another entire class of Americans beholden to socialism and ready to sell America down the toilet for a handful of nickels.]

Like Dodd-Frank, the “Stimulus,” the yet-to-be-passed Cap and Trade, ObamaCare is not about the public good. It is about creating more monolithic bureaucracy staffed with partisan union members. The bigger the government grows the more power the Democrats wield. “Affordable health care” is just a manikin in their dingy shop window.

27 posted on 02/26/2014 11:49:13 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Krugman must be spending a lot of time in Colorado these days. He’s either smoking dope, or he is just a dope.


28 posted on 02/27/2014 12:08:20 AM PST by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Aww, look.....little Paul back out preaching to the choir.

Obamacare’s days are numbered....The popularity of it is continually in the toilet.....and that isn’t changing.


29 posted on 02/27/2014 3:22:32 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So the people that have taken care of themselves and their families are the losers and those that have let their lives run to sh!t are the big winners.

Liberal utopia.

I don't need to see the end of this movie, I know how it turns out.

30 posted on 02/27/2014 4:37:15 AM PST by Pietro
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Where are the customer’s yachts? where are the winners?


31 posted on 02/27/2014 4:39:10 AM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What the Act does is in effect to increase the burden on fortunate people

So you ADMIT that 0bamacare is an income redistribution scheme, in public, is that correct, Mr. Krugman? You just said it out loud, for the world to hear.

Somehow liberals always find a way to weasel out of "class warfare" or "redistribution" accusations. Paul Krugman just admitted it right here, in print.

And Who the F$$$ Are YOU, or the Democrat Party, to decide that I should pay more because I'm healthy (for now - if you ever read "Animal Farm", the donkey eventually dies from over work)?

You can guarantee if I was ever able to confront Mr. Krugman face to face, he would insult me for being unwilling to help the poor, being part of the 1%, or whatever other slurs liberals use to change the subject.

32 posted on 02/27/2014 5:36:03 AM PST by Hardastarboard (The question of our age is whether a majority of Americans can and will vote us all into slavery.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

You said it well.


33 posted on 02/27/2014 5:55:34 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Oldeconomybuyer. Party-line shill Paul Krugman:
So here’s what you need to understand. The Affordable Care Act isn’t magic — it produces losers as well as winners. But it’s not black magic either, turning everyone into a loser. What the Act does is in effect to increase the burden on fortunate people — the healthy and wealthy — to lift some burdens on the less fortunate: people with chronic illnesses or other preexisting conditions, low-income workers.

34 posted on 03/01/2014 10:45:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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