Health care terrorism - Paul Krugman nails it...... oh yeah and IMPEACH!

The impeach part is just a nod to Jeff Lieber's current diary

This is about Paul Krugman's Op Ed in the NY Times today

Health Care Terror

Mr. Krugman makes the case that the "Medical Industrial Complex is doing whatever it can to protect their own fina ncial interests by attacking Michael Moore's film "SICKO", and by just trying to scare the hell out of everyone about single payer universal health care.

These days terrorism is the first refuge of scoundrels. So when British authorities announced that a ring of Muslim doctors working for the National Health Service was behind the recent failed bomb plot, we should have known what was coming.

"National healthcare: Breeding ground for terror?" read the on-screen headline, as the Fox News host Neil Cavuto and the commentator Jerry Bowyer solemnly discussed how universal health care promotes terrorism.

What I really like about Krugman is that he looks at it from an economists point of view. That way even the folks who will never buy (or never admit to buying) the moral aspect of this don't have any leg to stand on.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics." So declared F.D.R. in 1937, in words that apply perfectly to health care today. This isn’t one of those cases where we face painful tradeoffs — here, doing the right thing is also cost-efficient. Universal health care would save thousands of American lives each year, while actually saving money.

So this is a test. The only things standing in the way of universal health care are the fear-mongering and influence-buying of interest groups. If we can’t overcome those forces here, there’s not much hope for America’s future.