Ep. 11 Ignore the Bad News About Obamacare! Everything Is Fine!
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2015
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week Obamacare got some terrible news: rising premiums, lackluster enrollment (which is why the pool is sicker than anticipated), and major losses being suffered by insurance companies participating in the Obamacare exchanges. These are problems, Krugman magnanimously concedes, but not a big deal. Oh, yeah? Wait until you hear this episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 11. |
| 0:04.9 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column. |
| 0:09.6 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.3 | arrows of Krukman. |
| 0:15.5 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and Destroyer of Nations. |
| 0:19.5 | It's time for Contra Krukman. |
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| 0:39.4 | Did you know Bob Murphy has his own financial publication? I bet you didn't. |
| 0:44.6 | It's the Lara Murphy Report, co-authored with colleague Carlos Lara. |
| 0:49.6 | Check it out at contracrugeman.com slash LMR. Welcome to another episode of Contra Krugman. I'm Tom |
| 0:57.3 | Woods with Bob Murphy. We're talking about Obamacare again, and you may say, well, it's just |
| 1:01.8 | too darn soon to talk about Obamacare again. We just do what Krugman tells us to do, pretty much. |
| 1:07.1 | But it's not as if Krugman decided, I think, for no good reason, I'll just write about |
| 1:11.7 | Obamacare again. It's because there has been, as you may have noticed, in the news, |
| 1:16.7 | in the past day or so, some bad news for Obamacare. And we're going to talk about exactly |
| 1:22.5 | what that bad news is. And we want to talk about the spin that Paul Krugman is trying to put on that bad news. |
| 1:31.6 | Bob, you knew that when you wrote a book about health care, that this meant that from now |
| 1:36.8 | until the end of time, you would have to stay on your toes with regard to developments in |
| 1:41.0 | health care. |
| 1:41.6 | So here's another week for you to shine, my friend. How are you doing? |
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