Krugman: Wrong on Health Again
September 4, 2014
Here is something you don’t see very often. In the New York Times on the very same day (last Monday) are two radically different claims about how health care markets work. A column by Paul Krugman dismisses the idea that competition among for-profit insurers benefits consumers. The other column by widely respected health economist Austin Frakt summarizes research showing that competition matters a great deal.
