ROBERT MURPHY: Can’t Make ObamaCare Without Breaking Some Households.

Krugman wants to know how the healthcare.gov fiasco is affecting estimates of how many uninsured people won’t be able to get coverage. The answer is, one million people. To Krugman, that’s just a mild set back, so trivial that it prompts a sarcastic “oh noes” of mock disappointment.

These million people are allegedly the ones Krugman cares so much about, that he’s willing to overturn millions of others people’s health insurance, not to mention imposing hundreds of billions in new taxes on “the rich.” In Krugman’s vision of the world, the fact that the Obama Administration couldn’t get its website running means a million people will have, at best, delayed medical care. Given that that’s how he officially claims to be looking at this, his reaction is rather shocking. It leads one to wonder how this is really about helping actual human beings, versus achieving political goals that will help “the disadvantaged” in the abstract.