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John Taylor vs. Paul Krugman

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  • #2
    eamonnm79
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    Cool Video

    Krugman on private v Public healthcare was very controversial for mainstram US TV..

    He Basicly said that Publicly run health care was way more efficiant in america than Private. 3 v 14 % admin costs.

    Perhaps Mary Harney should take note.
    Now she should also seek redundancies from our bloated admin costs, but medicare is a great example of how well run public can be better than private in Healthcare.
    I would like to see universal social insurance come into play in Ireland ASAP


  • #3
    Running Bing
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    eamonnm79 wrote: »
    Cool Video

    Krugman on private v Public healthcare was very controversial for mainstram US TV..

    He Basicly said that Publicly run health care was way more efficiant in america than Private. 3 v 14 % admin costs.

    Perhaps Mary Harney should take note.
    Now she should also seek redundancies from our bloated admin costs, but medicare is a great example of how well run public can be better than private in Healthcare.


    The grass is always greener though. Its all very well saying if you could get a public health care system working well it would work well but the problem is getting it to work well in the first place:P

    Our health system is atrocious atm (My grandmother had a horrid experience in hospital yesterday. I know we're all sick of hearing the complaining but it really makes the blood boil:mad:) and something needs to radically change. Is a private healthcare system perfect? Not by a long shot but it is simply impossible for it to be worse than what we have now.

    Tinkering with the healthcare system in this country in its current guise is like a putting a band aid over a chainsaw wound. It needs complete overhaul.


    Not a big fan of Krugman though, bit extreme for my liking..Id be much more in line with the thinking of economists like Shiller and Akerloff (their new book really made a lot of sense to me and I would traditionally be very free-market orientated).


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