Krugman: ““I don’t know about you, but I think American children who need medical care should get it, period. Even if you think adults have made bad choices — a baseless smear in the case of the Frosts, but put that on one side — only a truly vicious political movement would respond by punishing their injured children.”

Poster: “Anyone disagree?”

The correct response here is not to agree with Krugman’s premise. There’s no sign the Frost children are being “punished”; they’re being cared for NOW under the SCHIP program. Further, IT DOES NOT FOLLOW that because someone needs health care, an entire government program must be expanded to allow them to get it. IT DOES NOT FOLLOW that parents’ bad decisions are to be forgiven and compensated for with other peoples’ money, else the idea of personal responsibility goes out the window.

The left is always plumping for political contributions to support their candidates, creating “defense funds” for Jumia-type criminals, and leftist causes of all sorts. If they think the Frosts deserve MORE “help” than SCHIP now provides them, then why don’t they pass the hat amongst themselves on an ad hoc basis? If the left is so filled with a spirit of forgiveness that they will overlook the parents’ “bad decisions” (and maybe their prevarications), then why don’t they pony up the extra money themselves?