Krugman: If Obama Is President, There’s No Chance for Universal Health Care [UPDATED]

We Democrats have waited SINCE PRESIDENT HARRY TRUMAN (the late 1940s!) for a chance at universal health care. It’s within reach. Let’s not blow it on a candidate whose plan is weaker and who’s already making ill-considered policy shifts (see below for a sad description of Obama’s illogical backpedaling on mandates by considering the imposition of penalties on those who don’t sign up). Here’s the “money quote” from Paul Krugman’s column in tomorrow’s New York Times (February 4, 2008): If you

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