New York Times columnist Paul Krugman makes an important argument against Barack Obama's candidacy: his health care reform proposal is FLAWED. A new analysis by leading health care economist Jonathan Gruber of M.I.T. says Hillary Clinton's health plan would cover almost twice as many of the uninsured than Barack Obama's, at only slightly higher cost. "The Clinton plan requires that everyone have insurance; the Obama plan doesn’t," Krugman writes:
"Mr. Gruber finds that a plan without mandates, broadly resembling the Obama plan, would cover 23 million of those currently uninsured, at a taxpayer cost of $102 billion per year. An otherwise identical plan with mandates would cover 45 million of the uninsured — essentially everyone — at a taxpayer cost of $124 billion. Over all, the Obama-type plan would cost $4,400 per newly insured person, the Clinton-type plan only $2,700."
In the extremely close Democratic race, this could be a deal-breaker for people who believe health care reform should be a very high priority.
