In “Health Care Is Still in Danger”, Paul Krugman warns against the danger of neglecting the issue of health care. Although the media focuses on controversial matters concerning Trump and Russia, Krugman advocates Americans to pay close attention to the Senate in order to ensure that a bill or act does not harm our health care system. As a regular columnist of the New York Times newspaper, Krugman, by default, has credibility due to his many years as an op-ed writer as well as his countless awards, including the Nobel Memorial Prize. His audience, which is the American public, will find themselves nodding their heads in agreement to Krugman’s argument because Krugman provides an efficacious balance of evidence, logic, and strong remarks.

Krugman builds a solid foundation to his argument through concrete evidence as well as sound reasoning. He warns Americans that if we remain oblivious to the Senate’s actions, the White House’s “effort to deprive millions of health care” will succeed. He references last March when the Affordable Care Act was on the path of being repealed until the “devastating assessment” of “23 million more uninsured Americans” dominated the media. In that case, however, “intense media scrutiny” sparked Americans to take action against the repeal. By juxtapositioning the situation in March to the current Senate’s attempts to repeal the current healthcare system, Krugman underscores the main difference between the two cases: media scrutiny. Because the media is focused on other flashy issues, Krugman is able to demonstrate the need for Americans to take matters into their own hands instead of allowing the media to dictate their opinions and their morals. He also adds that should the Senate successfully replace the healthcare system, “an extra 22 million” will be uninsured. The number is significant to readers because numbers are objective. Krugman, knowing the power in numbers, is able to solidify his argument and leave Americans without doubt of the importance of protesting the Senate’s actions.

In addition, Krugman provides hyperlinks so that his readers understand that all his claims are based on solid fact. One such hyperlink provides a timeline of the American Care Act repeal and replacement so that Americans can have a better understanding and thus realize the truth within his argument. He also provides a graph of Health Insurance Coverage of the Nonelderly to stress the importance of affordable healthcare for a significant number of Americans. Furthermore, Krugman takes advantage of strong diction to portray the harmful nature of repealing the current healthcare system. He claims that in the Senate there are “House leaders bullied and bribed enough holdouts.”

Krugman’s editorial is well written and his argument appears to have few to no flaws. Ultimately, it’s due to a blend of proof and reasoning that Americans are pulled into and convinced by Paul Krugman.