Of people who are rational can overcome the 40% who are totally irrational. Until the lunatics who spout this nonsense are recognized as, well, lunatics, it’s difficult to see how the 60% This completely-out-of-touch-with-reality aspect to American society bodes ill for our future. The conspiracy was set up in 1961 to publish his birth announcement in both of Hawaii’s major newspapers so he could be elected president 47 years later, or someone traveled back in time to place theĪnnouncements], & on & on: “don’t confuse me with facts, let me believe what I want to believe.” & we wonder why 50% of Americans don’t believe in evolution… WMD in Iraq, the Saddam – al Qaeda “connection”, the Social Security “crisis”, “weaponized Keynesianism”, “birthers” [Obama was born in Kenya but either Your post several days ago discussed this phenomenon at length, but as you noted, it’s present in virtually every issue we’ve faced in the past decade: “Medicare is run by the government.” “Don’t confuse me with facts keep the government out of Medicare!” This is like keep your government hands off my Medicare. Krugman, I believe this “confusion” over government health care is part & parcel of the overall deliberate ignorance many Americans exhibit. Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 25 23:14:00 2023, in response to Re: Accurate statement, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 25 22:29:16 2023. Though there are no places where it actually has people also believe that government-provided insurance can’t work, even though there are many places where it does - and one of those places is the
KEEP YOUR GOVERNMENT HANDS OFF MY MEDICARE FREE
In a way, this is the flip side of the persistent belief that the free market can cure healthcare, even
Pays substantially more medical bills (47% of the total) than the private insurance industry (35%).
One of the truly amazing and depressing things about the health reform debate is the persistence of fear-mongering over “socialized medicine” even though we already have a system in which the government “I had to politely explain that, ‘Actually, sir, your health care is being provided by the government,’ ” Inglis recalled. Robert Inglis (R-S.C.) to “keep your government hands off my Medicare.” A commenter points me to this:Īt a recent town-hall meeting in suburban Simpsonville, a man stood up and told Rep.
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