Ep. 76 Has Obamacare Really Saved Lives? Plus: Now Krugman Knows How Libertarians Feel All the Time
Contra Krugman
Tom Woods
4.7 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2017
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We've covered Obamacare quite a bit on this podcast, but we had to address Krugman's claim -- advanced by many on the left -- that Obamacare has surely saved lives, and its repeal would undoubtedly involve the loss of life. Then we look at Krugman's worry about the prospect of a media in the regime's pocket, and private individuals and companies feeling pressured to toe the regime's line. Yeah, we've never seen anything like that before!
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| 0:00.0 | Contra Krugman, episode 76. |
| 0:05.3 | Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Krugman's New York Times column. |
| 0:10.0 | Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the |
| 0:14.7 | arrows of Krugman. |
| 0:15.9 | Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations. |
| 0:19.9 | It's time for Contra Krugman. |
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| 0:41.2 | Hey, everyone. You know, at Contra Krugman, we don't have the time to get into the full nuances of |
| 0:45.3 | some of these issues about international trade and taxation. If you want to get the full scoop, |
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| 0:54.9 | Hello, everybody. Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. We are joined today, |
| 0:58.7 | however, by a special guest. And you know we do that very infrequently here, but this person has |
| 1:04.6 | done such important work on the topic we're discussing today. We couldn't not invite him. |
| 1:09.4 | And that's Oren Cass, who's a senior fellow at the |
| 1:12.1 | Manhattan Institute. He's the author of Over-Medicated How Medicaid Distorts and Dilutes America's |
| 1:18.3 | Safety Net. And just last week, he published a piece that we loved so much that we've got him here |
| 1:24.9 | on the show called Will Repealing Obamacare Kill People, |
| 1:29.2 | which is a response to, of course, what everybody is hearing in the media and on social media, |
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