A response to Bob Hockett

Let me hasten to add that this comment does not address the questions Bob has posed to Rick Garnett.  While Rick is drafting his response to Bob--which I, like other MOJ readers, eagerly await--I want to note that Paul Krugman, the Princeton economist and Nobel laureate, addressed Bob's wavering support for the current version of the Senate's bill, in his NYT column this past Friday.  Bob, no doubt, has read the column.  (I wonder what Bob thinks about Krugman's argument.)  I'm posting because I thought other MOJers might like a link to the column, here.

This morning, Krugman begins another, related column with these words:  "Unless some legislator pulls off a last-minute double-cross, health care reform will pass the Senate this week.  Count me among those who consider this an awesome achievement.  It’s a seriously flawed bill, we’ll spend years if not decades fixing it, but it’s nonetheless a huge step forward." The rest of the column is here.