Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Where Comparisons Are Due

The brilliant Paul Krugman, economist extraordinaire, breaks down just who we're modeling our Health Plan after - don't miss this article.

Investor’s Business Daily would like you to believe that Obamacare would turn America into Britain — or, rather, a dystopian fantasy version of Britain. The screamers on talk radio and Fox News would have you believe that the plan is to turn America into the Soviet Union. But the truth is that the plans on the table would, roughly speaking, turn America into Switzerland — which may be occupied by lederhosen-wearing holey-cheese eaters, but wasn’t a socialist hellhole the last time I looked.

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