Unlike Paul Krugman, whose ideology has so vitiated his judgment as an economist that he actually endorsed the fraudulent Edwards health care plan, William F. Buckley sees through the swindle:
Mr. Edwards speaks grandly about health coverage for 47 million people who do not now have it. But unless there is a diminution in the cost of health services, they will be paid for by somebody. But John Edwards calls for … a fiscal frumpery by which the cost of health care is somehow dissipated … They used to call that socialized medicine …
The popularity of “universal health care” is directly related to the belief, held by a large portion of the electorate, that it will be “free.” This sad fact has not been lost on John Edwards, and he hopes to fool the voters the way he once fooled juries: by telling them a pretty lie that he knows they want to believe.
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