Universal Healthcare Debate 2: Paul Krugman (2/12)

The motion: "Universal health coverage should be the federal government's responsibility"

Moderator: John Donvan

Speaking for the motion: Art Kellermann, Paul Krugman and Michael Rachlis

Speaking against the motion: Michael F. Cannon, Sally C. Pipes and John Stossel

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• commentary
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[noone120000]

everyone should have health care but do not let the government get involved.

[SuperZzz1234]

1. Ad homonym attacks get you no where. As an argumentative technique it simply shows your lack of rational and excess of emotional frustration.

2. I do have Health Insurance and make well over 250,000 a year.

3. Healthcare spending in America is the highest in the world. Beyond this fact it is also extremely concentrated with 5 % of the population accounting for more then half the costs.

4. 60% of bankruptcies in the US are healthcare related. 75% of those individuals had healthcare.

[aem945532]

07:15 that is because health care providers and health care insurance has been dirtied and distorted by gov intervention. In a free market, insurance would not be paying for things like regular check ups. And health care providers wouldn't be able to make enormous profits by charging outrageous prices for regular check ups, and they wouldn't have to if they weren't subject to so much regulation. God you are blind

[aem945532]

3:00 So, if a "heavy majority" wants this, what is stopping that "heavy majority" from providing health insurance to the very poor? Your argument is so flawed, and I don't understand how any economist could be so confused about morality. Remember, economics came from the study of moral sentiments and how people make trad off decisions.

[aem945532]

The real problems of poverty this country are the result of government interference. Unemployment caused by lousy schooling & the min. wage induced discrimination. We have a govt welfare scheme that has been a machine for inducing people to come under a system of dependency. We encourage families to break up and choose leisure over labor, which has in effect made many people poor. - Thank you Milton Friedman (RIP)

[aem945532]

See 01:35. Krugman, listen up. The gov doesn't have any responsibility. People have responsibility. How can we exercise our responsibility to our fellow man most effectively? Theres never in history been a more effective machine for eliminating poverty than the free enterprise system & the free market. The period in which we saw the greatest improvement in the lot of the ordinary man is the period of the 19th & early 20th century.

[drcphd]

Krugman is in wonderland, as usual.

[MsZeitgeist85]

He makes more sense than those crackpots, Sally Pipes, Cannon and Stossel.

[doddsalfa]

@TimeWarp66 it won't work for the US.It works fine in Scandinavia.

[doddsalfa]

@gundamWWW sorry but the military model is must older than the great system of socialism.

[SoulPower00]

"In this country, the government already pays more healthcare bills than private insurers do." How can he say this with a straight face after discussing the turmoil U.S. healthcare is in?? Government involvement and heavy regulation is EXACTLY what has destroyed our healthcare. And you want more of it???

[Ohjai32]

Wooo! Health care!