An ER physician lets him have it:
Krugman and his ilk, and pretty much anyone who comments on the current health care crisis neglect to mention what I believe to be the key factor to solving the majority of our problems. Patients, all patients, need to be made to be responsible for their health care. It is not a RIGHT it is a RESPONSIBILITY. Now there is ABSOLUTELY NO MONETARY INCENTIVE for patients to make healthy choices in their lives, to actually get a primary physician, to take their medicines as prescribed, or to get that operation they were told to get three years ago because THEY CAN, in fact, go to the Emergency Department 24/7/365 and have someone like me arrange it all for them.
