Hurray for Health Reform By PAUL KRUGMAN

[TheKentuckian]

48. You asserted that the only better plan than the current Wealthcare and Profit Protection Act

is Single Payer.

How are you substantiating that? There are models used that are not Single Payer that might be better as well. There is a NHS, there can be strictly regulated non-profits, maybe the Taiwanese solution would work better, I think a similar design to what we have now with a national exchange available and an end to the anti-trust exemption to one and all would be a step in the right direction.

This has never been approached honestly and has always been an effort to change the underlying system as little as possible. Never have we bothered to even publically examine the other systems around the world with a willingness to make systemic changes.

Single payer is the most attractive to me but there are other approaches that may easily be better than than our current clusterfuck or that same clusterfuck with a few pay for play features and an insane interpretation of the Commerce Clause that would set a precedent that literally ANY activity or non-activity can not only be dictated from the government, even with post-tax dollars but further the government can dictate you must make these purchases from the company store.