tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post8237632967033168736..comments2023-09-22T03:17:50.469-04:00Comments on Middle Class Political Economist: It's Gotten to Where I Can't Turn on the TVKenneth Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05747704671007690674noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post-80480705863155172052011-08-03T01:06:55.237-04:002011-08-03T01:06:55.237-04:00Paul Krugman was also right in 2003 when he labele...Paul Krugman was also right in 2003 when he labeled the Republican Party as a Revolutionary Force, that has no desire to negotiate or work within the confines of the United States Government as we know it, but instead they wish to tear this country down to parade rest and then remake it in their own image. Everything that *That party has gotten behind has helped chip away at our social safety nets, and our infrastructure. While I don't blame them for every ill, right now I do blame them for most every immediate issue that plagues us as a nation economically and socially.bpbproadrunnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18204358689859044850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post-80621039937328978902011-08-01T16:31:46.295-04:002011-08-01T16:31:46.295-04:00You're absolutely right. The data show that go...You're absolutely right. The data show that government in the US spends more than many countries spend in total on health care on a per capita basis. Then there is an approximately equal amount of private health care spending here.<br /><br />In my poverty post, I showed that health care inflation is far above the overall inflation rate and, as you say, that is driving the projections on Medicare costs in the future. I also touch on this in today's post on health care.Kenneth Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747704671007690674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6685155377705481833.post-73383446827012417942011-08-01T15:13:02.444-04:002011-08-01T15:13:02.444-04:00And would a little context hurt? I have yet to hea...And would a little context hurt? I have yet to hear a single story about the national debt that even mentions that all of the long term debt projects are so awful because the US spends twice as much on healthcare as any other industrialized nation in the world (and with worse outcomes!). It’s not as if those costs and the burden they place on the economy vanish because they get shifted off of government and onto the poor and elderly.Dustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17939654366818636262noreply@blogger.com