Afflicting the Afflicted

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OP-ED COLUMNIST
Afflicting the Afflicted
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: February 25, 2010

If we’re lucky, Thursday’s summit will turn out to have been the last act in the great health reform debate, the prologue to passage of an imperfect but nonetheless history-making bill. If so, the debate will have ended as it began: with Democrats offering moderate plans that draw heavily on past Republican ideas, and Republicans responding with slander and misdirection. More