Paul Krugman

@pkrugman.bsky.social

Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.

Part 3. Paul Krugman on "Curing U.S. Healthcare". "[W]e are approaching a point at which ambitious healthcare reform, well beyond simply repairing the damage to Obamacare, will be possible. And Democrats should be prepared to rise to the occasion." It's a wrap! (... for this healthcare series) 👇👇👇

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · last mo.

What could U.S. healthcare reform look like? The final primer in @pkrugman.bsky.social's Curing Healthcare series gives an international perspective on U.S. healthcare, discusses the changing political economy of U.S. healthcare reform, and proposes a path forward.

Part 2. Paul Krugman on "Curing U.S. Healthcare". "The second Trump administration and its allies in Congress have taken two actions that will, over time, almost completely undo the expansion of health insurance since the ACA was enacted... How can and should Democrats respond?" 👇👇👇 Stay tuned ...

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The new assault on healthcare — Part II of @pkrugman.bsky.social's Curing Healthcare series, originally published in his Substack newsletter and now on the Stone Center site, looks at 80 years of U.S. health politics, the Obamacare story, and U.S. healthcare on the eve of Trump II.

Part 1. Paul Krugman on "Curing U.S. Healthcare". "What works? Healthcare policy is an area in which advocates of reform don’t need to speculate about the feasibility of their plans, because all major routes to universal coverage have already been tried in multiple countries." 👇👇👇 Stay tuned ...

Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality@stone-lis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Curing U.S. Healthcare -- read Part I of @pkrugman.bsky.social's series, originally published in his Substack newsletter and now on the Stone Center site, to learn about why markets can’t be trusted to deliver healthcare, routes to universal healthcare, and what works.

So, I almost never use dictation software. But I was in a mood today and tried for bit. “Strait of Hormuz” came out “street of hormones,” which kind of makes sense …

excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.

Emily Badger@emmbadger.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We've been tracking nearly 200 lawsuits against the Trump administration over its attempts to leverage federal funding to impose the president's agenda. The most startling pattern: The administration seems entirely undeterred when it loses in court. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.

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