More Health Care Tragedies

Paul Krugman from today's New York Times on Health Care Horror Stories.

And if being a progressive means anything, it means believing that we need universal health care ...

And if being a libertarian (or a conservative for that matter) means anything, it means not relying on tragic stories in shaping the methods and mechanisms for the delivery of health care services. This is not to say we can't help the unfortunate, only that the unfortunate shouldn't determine the entirety of our policy.