Krugman seems to be on the warpath against the Sanders health plan, in apparent response to a backlash against his hit-job from yesterday: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/lessons-from-vermont/
Superficially his piece is eminently reasonable: Krugman says that for a variety of reasons, single-payer health-care in the US is politically impossible. I'd agree with his conclusions on that: aside from the insurance cos and other usual suspects ganging up against any such plan, I don't even think there will be popular support for something like that. Specifically, I'd bet that if a "Medicare for all" proposal is put on a popular referendum in the US, it will fail. It will fail because rich, white people who already have decent insurance as well as poor white people who want to prevent black people from getting equal access to health care will vote it down. But all of that is beside the point. Sanders' health plan is not a draft legislation; it is a political statement and should be evaluated as such. Krugman surely understands this. Yet he persists in attacking it. -raghu.
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