Paul Krugman: "The Affordable Care Act is working"

[Franzl]

I'm haven't been following American politics or this year's midterm campaign at all. Are Democrats honestly running away from the success Obamacare has been?

[Franzl]

Obviously he hasn't been paying attention to the news lately.  Saying that Obamacare is working is like saying that 2+2=7 or that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east.

Or saying you should judge a party by its current views instead of the ones it held in 1860s.

I never said that.  The fact of the matter remains that Democrats have gone from being the party of slavery and Jim Crow to the party of job-killing taxes and abortion on demand.  The Democrats' policies of today are almost as repulsive to me as their policies of the 1860s.

Christ, just shut the hell up already.  Shouldn't you be in middle school right now?

Nope, sorry, I'm in college.  Nice try, though.

I do feel sorry for any college that's that desperate to collect tuition fees.

[Franzl]

Being covered > not being covered. Is that so hard to understand?

If health insurance were that simple, our problems would have been solved during the stone age by ordinary citizens, without the need for government intervention.

Virtually every advanced country besides us have solved the problem in a more or less satisfactory way.

Sure, if rationing and long lines are "more or less satisfactory."

The "long lines" depend on the system. Most countries don't have particularly excessive waiting times. I can get an appointment with most doctors in a matter of days. With specialists a week or two.

And every system practices "rationing", it's only that the US does it entirely on ability to pay.

Not that I expect you to understand this.