Read my lips - it's the healthcare stupid

As quite a few business and econ webloggers have noted, healthcare is one of most important issues facing our economy in the minds of lots of small to medium-sized business owners and entrepreneurs. And, I might add, to lots of ordinary working and retired folks. Yet the level of dialog on proposals to try to address the problem is very low. It's also a personal hot button issue for me (full disclosure here) as I'm a recently minted cancer survivor who is just beginning to understand the impact of that fact on my ability to get insurance as I look to start a new business.

Jeff Jarvis pointed at a column by Paul Krugman in Friday's New York Times on the subject. BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis (scroll down a ways when you follow the link - the post is titled The Health-Care War). A tip of the hat to Jarvis - I've completely turned Krugman off due to his shrillness and blind partisanship, but I think this article is useful. I can't say that I agree with his prescription on how to fix the system but it's good to see the issue getting aired. Hopefully this will prompt some more discussion of the issue and possible solutions in the mainstream media.

The Krugman article can be found at the NYT site here. This link will rot so I'll copy in a few of the meaty bits below. Again, I think a single payer system modeled on Canada (read, greater government control of the health care system) is the wrong answer - but we need to have the debate. Also, see the comments on Jarvis' blog regarding his post to get more flavor for people's feelings on the issue.