I think Krugman and I are in some kind of mind-control/time warp/psychic connection thingy.

As I wrote Sunday, the Bush administration seems determined not to fix Medicare but to destroy it with incompetence and mismanagement. Krugman today has an editorial entitled, "First, Do More Harm" that more or less repeats my give up argument.

It's widely expected that President Bush will talk a lot about health care in his State of the Union address. He probably won't boast about his prescription drug plan, whose debut has been a Katrina-like saga of confusion and incompetence. But he probably will tout proposals for so-called "consumer driven" health care.

So it's important to realize that the administration's idea of health care reform is to take what's wrong with our system and make it worse.
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The bottom line is that what the Bush administration calls reform is actually the opposite. Driven by an ideology at odds with reality, the administration wants to accentuate, not fix, what's wrong with America's health care system.


Ha! Krugman is my brother in Giving Up. It's either that or Bush's particular form of incompetence and undermining of government is just really obvious. I prefer to think, however, that Krugman and I share a bond. A bond that can only exist when two men hate a third man so much that their minds start to merge even across great distances.