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Sunday, May 24, 2009

 Paul Krugman:

Europeans don't lose their health care when they lose their jobs. They don't find themselves with essentially no support once their trivial unemployment check has fallen off. We have nothing underneath. When Americans lose their jobs, they fall into the abyss. That does not happen in other advanced countries, it does not happen, I want to say, in civilized countries.

There is indeed something completely fucked up about a situation where the following scenario can very easily occur: one gets sick, and therefore can't perform his or her job, and therefore loses the job, and thereby loses health insurance. In essence, this person lost coverage because he got sick. You really want to say that something so absurdly damaging to a country's well being cannot be brought about unless some truly powerful and insidious forces gathered together behind the scenes to somehow make the crazy seem normal.


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